CHURCH HILL MIDDLE

CHURCH HILL MIDDLE is a middle school of reasonably sized scale in NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, operated by COMAL ISD, works with 780 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 643.

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

On demographics, CHURCH HILL MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 37% Hispanic. By comparison, Comal County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting CHURCH HILL MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHURCH HILL MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.9%.

Zooming out to the county, Comal County reports that median household earnings sit near $101,889, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Comal County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), CHURCH HILL MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

COMAL DISCIPLINE CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHURCH HILL MIDDLE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CHURCH HILL MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 58.3%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. CHURCH HILL MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 26% since 2018, when it stood at 1,053 (now 780). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 42% to 37%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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