NEW WAVERLY J H

NEW WAVERLY J H operates as a very small middle-grades school in NEW WAVERLY, Texas, operated by NEW WAVERLY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 253 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so NEW WAVERLY J H sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, NEW WAVERLY J H reports that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder reads as 19% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, NEW WAVERLY J H has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at NEW WAVERLY J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Walker County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, NEW WAVERLY J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Walker County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $52,324 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NEW WAVERLY J H is one of 18 public schools in Walker County (combined enrollment of about 13,655 students).

Nearest neighbor: NEW WAVERLY INT, around 0.9 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEW WAVERLY J H at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 44.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. NEW WAVERLY J H's enrollment has ticked up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 229 (now 253). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 15% to 9%.

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