SHALLOWATER MIDDLE

SHALLOWATER MIDDLE is a junior high of intimate scale in SHALLOWATER, Texas, run under SHALLOWATER ISD, instructing 397 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so SHALLOWATER MIDDLE sits 38% smaller than that benchmark.

SHALLOWATER ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,731 students; SHALLOWATER MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, SHALLOWATER MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 30% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting SHALLOWATER MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lubbock County (around 57%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SHALLOWATER MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lubbock County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,155 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. SHALLOWATER MIDDLE is one of 110 public schools in Lubbock County (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students).

SHALLOWATER H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SHALLOWATER MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 493 students in 2018 compared to 397 in 2025.

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