WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE

Located at 4540 WOODRIDGE PKWY, in PORTER, Texas, WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE is a sprawling intermediate school that enrolls 1,371 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within NEW CANEY ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 113% larger than the state mean of about 643.

NEW CANEY ISD runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 19,420 students. WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE logs that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 23% White, 15% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE logs 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Montgomery County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.6%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Montgomery County shows median household income runs about $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), of which WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is KINGWOOD PARK H S, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.2%.

WOODRIDGE FOREST MIDDLE operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 63%: 842 students in 2018 compared to 1,371 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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