Somerville Intermediate

Somerville Intermediate is a small, rural school in the Somerville Independent School District (Isd) serving 160 students in grades 5 through 7, with a high percentage of students (76.88%) qualifying for free or reduced lunch. After a steep decline to the 8th percentile statewide in 2022-2023, the school has shown a promising rebound to the 32nd percentile in 2025-2026, earning a 2-star rating, which signals a real but fragile turnaround.

This recent improvement is most evident in the school's subgroup performance. In the 2023-2024 school year, nearly every student group ranked in the bottom 10% of the state, but by 2025-2026, several groups made remarkable gains. Special Education students jumped from the 4th to the 51st percentile, Hispanic students from the 2nd to the 33rd percentile, and Female students from the 2nd to the 45th percentile. While the school still performs below the state average in most subjects, these widespread improvements suggest that recent school-wide initiatives are having a positive impact. Compared to nearby schools with similar poverty levels, such as Caldwell Intermediate (68% poverty) and Brenham Middle (61% poverty), Somerville is showing signs of catching up, even outperforming Caldwell in 5th Grade Math (42.86% vs. 32.88%).

A standout anomaly is the school's 8th Grade Mathematics performance, where 94.44% of students were proficient in 2025-2026—far above the state average of 47.24% and dramatically higher than the school's own 7th Grade Math score of 17.14%. This suggests that the small cohort of 8th graders, likely taking Algebra I, is exceptionally high-performing. Interestingly, the school's student-teacher ratio has increased from 9.9 to 17.5 in recent years, now matching high-performing Pecan Trail Intermediate in College Station Independent School District (Isd), yet academic performance has improved despite this change, indicating that factors like curriculum and leadership are driving the recent gains.