Post Middle School

Public middle school in Post, Texas · Post ISD · Grades 6–8

Post Middle School serves 142 students in grades 6–8 in Post (Garza County). It is one of 3 schools in Post ISD. By enrollment it is the 1619th largest of 1,719 public middle schools in Texas (median 639 students). With 9.7 students per full-time teacher, it has fewer students per teacher than the typical Texas middle school (14.4).

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Rank and medians compare all 1,719 Texas middle schools with enrollment listed on this site.

142

students

9.7

students per teacher

62.7%

free/reduced lunch eligible

6–8

grades

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Students per teacher = students ÷ 14.63 full-time-equivalent teachers.

School facts

School type	Regular School
Level	Middle
Grades	6–8
District	Post ISD
County	Garza County
Area type	Rural, remote
School meals	National School Lunch Program, free or reduced price for eligible students
NCES school ID	483549004027

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 directory and school characteristics; area type from NCES EDGE locale codes.

Compared with the district and Texas

	This school	Post ISD	Texas middle schools (median)
Students	142	686	639
Students per teacher	9.7	11.1	14.4
Free or reduced-price lunch eligible	62.7%	71%	65.6%

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. District figures add up its schools. 4% of Texas middle schools have fewer students per teacher than this school (share of schools with a lower ratio). State test results aren't published here yet.

Post Middle School in context

Size

Post Middle School is the only middle school in Post ISD. Its 142 students are 20.7% of the district's 686. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 33.2 miles away and have a median of 339 students, so Post Middle School is smaller 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 54 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 36, against an average of 47 per grade. This year grade 8 has 50% more students than grade 6 (54 against 36). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 59.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Post ISD (62.7%). White students are next, at 31.7%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

62.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71% across Post 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

Post Middle School has 14.63 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 142 students would have about 9.9 teachers, so Post Middle School has 4.7 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as rural, remote, which means it is in rural territory more than 25 miles from an urbanized area and more than 10 miles from a town. The nearest other middle school is Slaton Junior High School, 22.7 miles away in Slaton ISD. No other middle school is within 10 miles.

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

Students by race and ethnicity

Students by race and ethnicity
Hispanic	59.2%
White	31.7%
Two or more races	6.3%
Black	2.8%

53.5% of students are girls and 46.5% are boys.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership.

Students by grade

Students by grade
Grade 6	36
Grade 7	52
Grade 8	54