Classical Center at Brandenburg Middle School

Size

Of the 12 middle schools in Garland ISD, Classical Center at Brandenburg Middle School is the 3rd largest, with 2.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 861; Classical Center at Brandenburg 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 377 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 316, against an average of 352 per grade. This year grade 8 has 16% fewer students than grade 6 (316 against 377). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 52.7% here and 53.4% across Garland ISD. Black students are next, at 21%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.1% across Garland 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 65.59 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,056 students, Classical Center at Brandenburg Middle School has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,056 students would have about 73.3 teachers, so Classical Center at Brandenburg Middle School has 7.7 fewer.

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

Location

Classical Center at Brandenburg 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 Lyles Collegiate Middle School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 40 other middle schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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