White Oak Middle School

Size

White Oak Middle School is the 3rd largest of New Caney ISD's 4 middle schools; its 833 students are 4.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,153; White Oak 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 291 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 255, against an average of 278 per grade. This year grade 8 has 14% more students than grade 6 (291 against 255). 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: 68.8% here and 63.1% across New Caney ISD. White students are next, at 21.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

72.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.5% across New Caney 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 53.62 full-time-equivalent teachers for 833 students, White Oak Middle School has 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 833 students would have about 57.8 teachers, so White Oak Middle School has 4.2 fewer.

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

Location

White Oak Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Pine Valley Middle School, 1.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 18 other middle schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

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