NEW BOSTON MIDDLE

Located at 1215 HWY 8 N, in NEW BOSTON, Texas, NEW BOSTON MIDDLE is a minimally staffed 6-8 campus that enrolls 240 students (grades 6 through 8), part of NEW BOSTON ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so NEW BOSTON MIDDLE sits 63% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW BOSTON MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by NEW BOSTON ISD, a district that works with 1,108 students overall.

On demographics, NEW BOSTON MIDDLE logs that White students make up the majority at 55%; the rest looks like 22% Black, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, NEW BOSTON MIDDLE shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bowie County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NEW BOSTON MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +13.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bowie County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,803, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. NEW BOSTON MIDDLE is one of 46 public schools in Bowie County (combined enrollment of about 17,523 students).

The closest other public school is CRESTVIEW EL, roughly 1.7 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEW BOSTON MIDDLE comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. NEW BOSTON MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 240).

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.