Summary:
The Winters Independent School District (Isd) contains a single middle school, Winters J H, which serves grades 7 and 8 in the small town of Winters, Texas, with a total enrollment of just 74 students.
Winters J H is a small school with a very favorable student-teacher ratio of 8:1 and spends nearly $10,000 per student, yet it is experiencing a severe academic crisis. The school's state ranking has plummeted from the 49th percentile (2 stars) in 2023-2024 to the 13th percentile (1 star) in 2025-2026, placing it in the bottom 13% of Texas middle schools. The most alarming data point is the 7th-grade Mathematics proficiency rate for the 2025-2026 school year, which is 0%, a catastrophic 29.41 percentage points below the state average. Across all tested subjects, the school's proficiency rate is, on average, nearly 20 percentage points lower than the state average, with 8th-grade Social Studies also being a consistent and profound weakness, roughly 20 points below the state average for two consecutive years.
The school's small size means that the performance of a handful of students can dramatically swing the data, but the consistent underperformance across all subjects and the rapid two-year decline indicate a fundamental problem that goes beyond financial resources or class size. While the school has a 0.0% dropout rate and 54.05% of students are economically disadvantaged, the data points to a systemic crisis requiring immediate and intensive intervention, particularly in Mathematics and Social Studies. The school's performance is volatile year-over-year, with 8th-grade Math improving from 19.51% to 28.89% proficiency while 7th-grade Math collapsed, suggesting that specific cohorts of students heavily influence results.
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