SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE

Set in SPRING BRANCH, Texas, SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus, one of the schools within COMAL ISD. It serves 604 students across grades 6 through 8.

Within COMAL ISD, which oversees 37 schools and 29,839 students, SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 40% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Comal County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Comal County's rate of about 32%.

After controlling for student poverty, SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.7%, the actual is 63.5%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Comal County indicate median household income runs about $101,889, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE is one.

ARLON R SEAY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 72.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 47% since 2018, when it stood at 1,138 (now 604). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.