Christen Middle School

Size

Christen Middle School is the 2nd largest of Laredo ISD's 4 middle schools; its 1,115 students are 5.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 813; Christen 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 389 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 356, against an average of 372 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 356 in grade 6 and 370 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

99.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 97.1% across Laredo 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 78.94 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,115 students, Christen Middle School has 14.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,115 students would have about 77.4 teachers, so Christen Middle School has 1.5 more.

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

Location

Christen Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Memorial Middle School, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 16 other middle schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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