NEW WAVERLY H S

NEW WAVERLY H S operates as an intimate 9-12 campus in NEW WAVERLY, Texas, run under NEW WAVERLY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 325 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 59% smaller than the state mean of about 796.

Within NEW WAVERLY ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,074 students, NEW WAVERLY H S is one campus in the system.

Demographically, NEW WAVERLY H S logs that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting NEW WAVERLY H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Walker County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, NEW WAVERLY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 62.3%, a residual of +9.5 points.

In the area at large, Walker County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,324 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Walker County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,655 students), of which NEW WAVERLY H S is one.

NEW WAVERLY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEW WAVERLY H S comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. NEW WAVERLY H S's enrollment has ticked up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 314 (now 325). Black enrollment moved from 18% to 11% across the same window.

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