G W Kennemer Middle School

Size

G W Kennemer Middle School is the largest of Duncanville ISD's 6 middle schools; its 795 students are 6.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 474; G W Kennemer 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 348 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 104, against an average of 265 per grade. This year grade 8 has 230% more students than grade 6 (343 against 104). 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 Black students: 47.3% here and 39.8% across Duncanville ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 45.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 78.1% across Duncanville ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 65 full-time-equivalent teachers for 795 students, G W Kennemer Middle School has 12.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 795 students would have about 55.2 teachers, so G W Kennemer Middle School has 9.8 more.

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

Location

G W Kennemer Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is William H Byrd Middle School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 42 other middle schools, 13 of them within 5 miles.

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