HOWELL MIDDLE

HOWELL MIDDLE operates as a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in VICTORIA, Texas, run under VICTORIA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 716 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within VICTORIA ISD, which oversees 25 schools and 12,919 students, HOWELL MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HOWELL MIDDLE logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 22% White, 9% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HOWELL MIDDLE has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at HOWELL MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, HOWELL MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.9%; this one delivers 31.1%.

Around the school, Victoria County reports that median household income runs about $70,896, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Victoria County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students), of which HOWELL MIDDLE is one.

ROWLAND EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HOWELL MIDDLE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOWELL MIDDLE has declined 20%, going from 900 students in 2018 to 716 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 29% to 22%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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