Alternative Middle School

Size

Alternative Middle School is the smallest of Northside ISD's 22 middle schools; its 65 students are 0.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4 miles away with a median enrollment of 956; Alternative Middle School is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

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 37 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 8, against an average of 22 per grade. This year grade 8 has 363% more students than grade 6 (37 against 8). 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: 80% here and 68.3% across Northside ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

67.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 49.7% across Northside ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 15 full-time-equivalent teachers for 65 students, Alternative Middle School has 4.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 65 students would have about 4.5 teachers, so Alternative Middle School has 10.5 more.

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

Location

Alternative Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Hobby Middle School, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 36 other middle schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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