East Central Heritage Middle School

Size

Of the 2 middle schools in East Central ISD, East Central Heritage Middle School is the largest, with 10.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 6.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 271; East Central Heritage 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 435 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 387, against an average of 417 per grade. This year grade 8 has 10% fewer students than grade 6 (387 against 429). 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: 64.3% here and 73.3% across East Central ISD. White students are next, at 18.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.1% across East Central 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 66.52 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,251 students, East Central Heritage Middle School has 18.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,251 students would have about 86.9 teachers, so East Central Heritage Middle School has 20.4 fewer.

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

Location

East Central Heritage Middle School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Legacy Middle School, 4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 17 other middle schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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