Earnesteen Milstead Middle School

Size

Of the 22 middle schools in Pasadena ISD, Earnesteen Milstead Middle School is the 8th largest, with 1.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 556; Earnesteen Milstead 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 5 with 325 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 316, against an average of 321 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 325 in grade 5 and 316 in grade 6.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 91% here and 82.8% across Pasadena ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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 51.5 full-time-equivalent teachers for 641 students, Earnesteen Milstead Middle School has 12.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 641 students would have about 44.5 teachers, so Earnesteen Milstead Middle School has 7 more.

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

Location

Earnesteen Milstead Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Iltexas Houston Windmill Lakes Middle School, 1.5 miles away in International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas). Within 10 miles there are 61 other middle schools, 25 of them within 5 miles.

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