NEW WAVERLY EL

Located at 335 FM 1375 W, in NEW WAVERLY, Texas, NEW WAVERLY EL is a low-enrollment elementary campus that hosts 327 students (grades pre-K through 3), operated by NEW WAVERLY ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so NEW WAVERLY EL sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.

NEW WAVERLY ISD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,074 students. NEW WAVERLY EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, NEW WAVERLY EL logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, NEW WAVERLY EL logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Walker County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, NEW WAVERLY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of +6.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Walker County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,324 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Walker County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,655 students), of which NEW WAVERLY EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: NEW WAVERLY INT, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around NEW WAVERLY EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NEW WAVERLY EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NEW WAVERLY EL has declined 12%, going from 370 students in 2018 to 327 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 13% to 20%.

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