Gateway Middle School

Size

Of the 13 middle schools in Killeen ISD, Gateway Middle School is the smallest, with 0.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 734; Gateway Middle School is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

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 28 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 10, against an average of 16 per grade. This year grade 8 has 180% more students than grade 6 (28 against 10). 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: 56.3% here and 33.8% across Killeen ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 22.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 61.8% across Killeen 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 14.59 full-time-equivalent teachers for 48 students, Gateway Middle School has 3.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 48 students would have about 3.3 teachers, so Gateway Middle School has 11.3 more.

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

Location

Gateway Middle School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other middle school is Manor Middle School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 12 other middle schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

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