Attucks Middle School

Size

Attucks Middle School is the 28th largest of Houston ISD's 42 middle schools; its 392 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 398 students, so Attucks 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 144 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 123, against an average of 131 per grade. This year grade 8 has 13% fewer students than grade 6 (125 against 144). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 62% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (20.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 33.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

Attucks Middle School has 30.81 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 392 students would have about 27.2 teachers, so Attucks Middle School has 3.6 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 Pro-Vision Middle School, 1 miles away in The Pro-Vision Academy. There are 12 middle schools within 5 miles and 67 within 10 miles.

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