NEW DIANA MIDDLE

NEW DIANA MIDDLE, a close-knit middle-grades school in DIANA, Texas, run under NEW DIANA ISD, enrolls 269 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so NEW DIANA MIDDLE sits 58% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW DIANA ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,136 students. NEW DIANA MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, NEW DIANA MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at NEW DIANA MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Upshur County's rate of about 59%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NEW DIANA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of -1.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Upshur County put the typical household earns roughly $66,208 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Upshur County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,918 students), of which NEW DIANA MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is NEW DIANA H S, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around NEW DIANA MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEW DIANA MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. NEW DIANA MIDDLE's enrollment has rose 12% since 2018, when it stood at 241 (now 269). Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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