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What's the state of after-school transportation at CANYON MIDDLE?
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Enrollment
1,251
Middle
DISTRICT 881 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COMAL ISD·NCES 481473000968
CANYON MIDDLE
2014 FM 1101, NEW BRAUNFELS, TX 78130 · (830) 221-2300 · Comal County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,251 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
541 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
55.0%
TX avg 51.8% . +27.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
34.0%
TX avg 42.0% . -3.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 55% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,251
+64 (+5%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 18.0:1
% White
39%
was 42%
% Hispanic
50%
was 49%
% Black
5%
was 3%
% Asian
2%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the CANYON MIDDLE community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Comal County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
183,826
Census ACS
Median income
$101,889
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
49
29,653 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in COMAL ISD
- CANYON H SHigh · 2,414 students
- SMITHSON VALLEY H SHigh · 2,098 students
- PIEPER H SHigh · 2,093 students
- DAVENPORT H SHigh · 1,233 students
- JOHNSON RANCH ELElementary · 1,185 students
- PIEPER RANCH MIDDLEMiddle · 1,140 students
Other schools in NEW BRAUNFELS
- CANYON H SHigh · 2,414 students
- NEW BRAUNFELS H SHigh · 1,990 students
- NEW BRAUNFELS MIDDLEMiddle · 1,301 students
- OAKRUN MIDDLEMiddle · 1,013 students
- VERAMENDI ELElementary · 935 students
- DANVILLE MIDDLEMiddle · 921 students
Nearby schools
- FREIHEIT EL0.4 mi · 662
- CANYON H S0.9 mi · 2,414
- GOODWIN FRAZIER EL1.3 mi · 662
- COMAL DISCIPLINE CENTER1.3 mi · 47
- COMAL ACADEMY1.3 mi · 76
- MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S1.3 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About CANYON MIDDLEHow large is CANYON MIDDLE?
CANYON MIDDLE enrolls approximately 1,251 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does CANYON MIDDLE serve?
CANYON MIDDLE serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does CANYON MIDDLE have?
CANYON MIDDLE employs 73 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.2:1.
How diverse is CANYON MIDDLE?
CANYON MIDDLE reports a student body of 39% White, 50% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is CANYON MIDDLE public or private?
CANYON MIDDLE is a public K-12 school, overseen by COMAL ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.