 About 60.2% of families and 53.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 76.3% of those under age 18 and 28.3% of those age 65 or over.Shortly after court-mandated integration, the black residents of College Station established a "boycott school" known as the Freedom School in protest of a busing plan.This school had an enrollment of 300, but existed for only two weeks.