Bowie Middle School

Size

Of the 12 middle schools in Amarillo ISD, Bowie Middle School is the 3rd largest, with 2.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 488; Bowie Middle School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 8 with 370 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 3, against an average of 240 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12,233% more students than grade 6 (370 against 3). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 82.5% here and 47.9% across Amarillo ISD. White students are next, at 11.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.5% across Amarillo ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 48.28 full-time-equivalent teachers for 721 students, Bowie Middle School has 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 721 students would have about 50.1 teachers, so Bowie Middle School has 1.8 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

Bowie Middle School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. Bowie 6th Grade Campus (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 17 other middle schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.