Alcove Trails Middle School

Size

Alcove Trails Middle School is the 3rd largest of Frenship ISD's 4 middle schools; its 618 students are 5.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 698; Alcove Trails Middle School is close to their typical size.

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 6 with 230 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 162, against an average of 206 per grade. This year grade 8 has 30% fewer students than grade 6 (162 against 230). 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: 48.4% here and 50.3% across Frenship ISD. White students are next, at 41.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

46.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 45.7% across Frenship 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 35.38 full-time-equivalent teachers for 618 students, Alcove Trails Middle School has 17.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 618 students would have about 42.9 teachers, so Alcove Trails Middle School has 7.5 fewer.

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

Location

Alcove Trails Middle School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Heritage Middle School, 2.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 13 other middle schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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