NEWCASTLE SCHOOL

Set in NEWCASTLE, Texas, NEWCASTLE SCHOOL is a small all-grades campus, run under NEWCASTLE ISD. It serves 227 students across grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 53% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 485 students.

NEWCASTLE ISD is the operating authority for NEWCASTLE SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, NEWCASTLE SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting NEWCASTLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at NEWCASTLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Young County (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NEWCASTLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.8%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Around the school, Young County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,010, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Young County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,066 students), of which NEWCASTLE SCHOOL is one.

GRAHAM J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.8 miles from this campus. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NEWCASTLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.5%.

NEWCASTLE SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. NEWCASTLE SCHOOL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 231 (now 227). Class-load math has fell: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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