Bessie Coleman Middle School

Size

Bessie Coleman Middle School is the largest of Cedar Hill ISD's 3 middle schools; its 488 students are 7.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 458 students, so Bessie Coleman 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 8 with 186 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 141, against an average of 163 per grade. This year grade 8 has 32% more students than grade 6 (186 against 141). 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 69.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across Cedar Hill ISD (65.2%). Hispanic students are next, at 21.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

74.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.3% across Cedar Hill 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

Bessie Coleman Middle School has 33.67 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 488 students would have about 33.9 teachers, so Bessie Coleman Middle School has about as many as that.

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 Grace R Brandenburg Intermediate School, 1.5 miles away in Duncanville ISD. There are 12 middle schools within 5 miles and 38 within 10 miles.

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