SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE

Set in SPRING BRANCH, Texas, SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE is a moderately sized intermediate school, run under COMAL ISD. It hosts 880 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE is one of 37 schools operated by COMAL ISD, a district that teaches 29,839 students overall.

Demographically, SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE records that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Comal County's rate of about 32%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.2%; this one delivers 70.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Comal County reports that median household earnings sit near $101,889, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Comal County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), of which SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is SMITHSON VALLEY H S, roughly 1.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 67.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLE has ticked down 26%, going from 1,194 students in 2018 to 880 in 2025. The White share of enrollment grew from 53% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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