Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan

Size

Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan is the 37th largest of Houston ISD's 42 middle schools; its 306 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 323 students, so Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan 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 7 with 110 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 88, against an average of 102 per grade. This year grade 8 has 19% fewer students than grade 6 (88 against 108). 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 58.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (20.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 32.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

70.3% 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

Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan has 24.91 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 306 students would have about 21.3 teachers, so Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan 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 Yellowstone College Preparatory, 0.5 miles away in Yellowstone College Preparatory. There are 17 middle schools within 5 miles and 65 within 10 miles.

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