CANYON MIDDLE

CANYON MIDDLE, a large middle school in NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, overseen by COMAL ISD, hosts 1,251 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 95% above the state mean of about 643.

Within COMAL ISD, which oversees 37 schools and 29,839 students, CANYON MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, CANYON MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CANYON MIDDLE has 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Comal County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CANYON MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 55.0%; CANYON MIDDLE posts 39.1%, -15.8 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Comal County) logs that median household income runs about $101,889, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Comal County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), of which CANYON MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: FREIHEIT EL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CANYON MIDDLE comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 1,187 students in 2018 compared to 1,251 in 2025.

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