Alton Memorial Junior High School

Size

Of the 4 middle schools in Mission CISD, Alton Memorial Junior High School is the 2nd largest, with 5.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 625 students, so Alton Memorial Junior High School is larger than most of them.

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 293 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 241, against an average of 273 per grade. This year grade 8 has 22% more students than grade 6 (293 against 241). 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 99% of enrollment, about the same share as across Mission CISD (97.5%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.2% across Mission CISD 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

Alton Memorial Junior High School has 63.44 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 819 students would have about 56.9 teachers, so Alton Memorial Junior High School has 6.5 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other middle school is Domingo Trevino Middle School, 0.5 miles away in La Joya ISD. There are 10 middle schools within 5 miles and 24 within 10 miles.

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