CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE

Located at 10317 US HWY 259 N, in NACOGDOCHES, Texas, CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE is a close-knit intermediate school that works with 286 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by CENTRAL HEIGHTS ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 643.

CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by CENTRAL HEIGHTS ISD, a district that serves 1,096 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE logs that White students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder looks like 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Nacogdoches County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Nacogdoches County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.7%, the actual is 69.2%, a residual of +7.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Nacogdoches County shows median household income runs about $53,555, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Nacogdoches County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,396 students), CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S, around 0.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE has climbed 3%, going from 279 students in 2018 to 286 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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