SOMERVILLE H S

SOMERVILLE H S is one of the one-room-style senior highs in SOMERVILLE, Texas, run under SOMERVILLE ISD, with 207 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% below the state mean of about 796.

Across the 3 schools in SOMERVILLE ISD (567 students total), SOMERVILLE H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, SOMERVILLE H S logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% White, 15% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Burleson County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at SOMERVILLE H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Burleson County (around 65%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SOMERVILLE H S is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.5%; SOMERVILLE H S posts 24.3%, -16.2 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Burleson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,000 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOMERVILLE H S is one of 10 public schools in Burleson County (combined enrollment of about 3,128 students).

Nearest neighbor: SOMERVILLE EL, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOMERVILLE H S ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.1%.

SOMERVILLE H S operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 7%: 194 students in 2018 compared to 207 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 29% to 15%. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.1:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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