DEWEYVILLE H S

Located at 171 HWY 12 W, in ORANGE, Texas, DEWEYVILLE H S is a micro-enrollment secondary school that teaches 294 students (grades 6 through 12), one of the schools within DEWEYVILLE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so DEWEYVILLE H S sits 63% smaller than that benchmark.

DEWEYVILLE ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 564 students; DEWEYVILLE H S is among them.

Demographically, DEWEYVILLE H S shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DEWEYVILLE H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Newton County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DEWEYVILLE H S is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.1%; DEWEYVILLE H S posts 34.8%, -16.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Newton County indicate median household income runs about $42,618, roughly 7% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DEWEYVILLE H S is one of 6 public schools in Newton County (combined enrollment of about 1,750 students).

DEWEYVILLE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, DEWEYVILLE H S comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 316 students in 2018 compared to 294 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 94% to 88%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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