Alief Middle School

Size

Alief Middle School is the 7th largest of Alief ISD's 12 middle schools; its 821 students are 2.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 837; Alief 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 8 with 346 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 137, against an average of 274 per grade. This year grade 8 has 153% more students than grade 6 (346 against 137). 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: 71.4% here and 63.2% across Alief ISD. Asian students are next, at 14.5%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.4% across Alief 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 58.68 full-time-equivalent teachers for 821 students, Alief Middle School has 14 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 821 students would have about 57 teachers, so Alief Middle School has 1.7 more.

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

Location

Alief Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Youngblood Intermediate School, 1.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 55 other middle schools, 18 of them within 5 miles.

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