Dailey Middle School

Size

Dailey Middle School is the 2nd largest of Del Valle ISD's 3 middle schools; its 767 students are 6.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 6.3 miles away and have a median of 519 students, so Dailey 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 8 with 279 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 237, against an average of 256 per grade. This year grade 8 has 11% more students than grade 6 (279 against 251). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 75.6% of enrollment, a lower share than across Del Valle ISD (82.6%). Black students are next, at 15.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.1% across Del Valle 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

Dailey Middle School has 53.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 767 students would have about 53.3 teachers, so Dailey 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 town, fringe, which means it is in a town no more than 10 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other middle school is KIPP Austin Academy of Arts & Letters, 3.4 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. There is 1 middle school within 5 miles and 18 within 10 miles.

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