Central Middle School

Size

Central Middle School is the largest of Weslaco ISD's 4 middle schools; its 1,060 students are 6.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 658; Central Middle 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 7 with 375 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 336, against an average of 353 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 336 in grade 6 and 349 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 96.8% here and 98% across Weslaco ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.2% across Weslaco 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

With 56.07 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,060 students, Central Middle School has 18.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,060 students would have about 73.6 teachers, so Central Middle School has 17.5 fewer.

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

Location

Central Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Armando Cuellar Middle School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 14 other middle schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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