Fondren Middle School

Size

Fondren Middle School is the 16th largest of Houston ISD's 42 middle schools; its 713 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 531; Fondren 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 256 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 215, against an average of 238 per grade. This year grade 8 has 19% more students than grade 6 (256 against 215). 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: 74.6% here and 61.7% across Houston ISD. Black students are next, at 21.6%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

99% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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 46.51 full-time-equivalent teachers for 713 students, Fondren Middle School has 15.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 713 students would have about 49.5 teachers, so Fondren Middle School has 3 fewer.

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

Location

Fondren Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Sugar Grove Academy, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 58 other middle schools, 20 of them within 5 miles.

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