NEW WAVERLY INT

NEW WAVERLY INT, a tiny elementary campus in NEW WAVERLY, Texas, part of NEW WAVERLY ISD, instructs 169 students, covering grades 4 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so NEW WAVERLY INT sits 67% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in NEW WAVERLY ISD (1,074 students total), NEW WAVERLY INT accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, NEW WAVERLY INT reports that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Walker County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, NEW WAVERLY INT has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Walker County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NEW WAVERLY INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Walker County put median household income runs about $52,324, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NEW WAVERLY INT is one of 18 public schools in Walker County (combined enrollment of about 13,655 students).

NEW WAVERLY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEW WAVERLY INT comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 156 students in 2018 compared to 169 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 15% to 9%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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