POST MIDDLE

Set in POST, Texas, POST MIDDLE is a tiny middle-grades school, one of the schools within POST ISD. It instructs 142 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so POST MIDDLE sits 78% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in POST ISD (686 students total), POST MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, POST MIDDLE lists that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 32% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Garza County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, POST MIDDLE has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at POST MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Garza County's rate of about 71%.

After controlling for student poverty, POST MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 46.5%; this one comes in at 23.6%, -22.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Garza County shows median household income runs about $46,314, roughly 10% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Garza County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 841 students), POST MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: POST EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around POST MIDDLE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), POST MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 163 students in 2018 compared to 142 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.