Alternative Middle School

Size

Of the 15 middle schools in North East ISD, Alternative Middle School is the smallest, with 0.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 867 students, so 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 41 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 13, against an average of 22 per grade. This year grade 8 has 215% more students than grade 6 (41 against 13). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 70.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across North East ISD (63.5%). Black students are next, at 17.9%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 50.6% across North East 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

Alternative Middle School has 81.85 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 0.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 67 students would have about 4.7 teachers, so Alternative Middle School has 77.1 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Nimitz Middle School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 8 middle schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

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