Grantham Academy

Size

Of the 15 middle schools in Aldine ISD, Grantham Academy is the 4th largest, with 1.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 739 students, so Grantham Academy 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 363 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 309, against an average of 335 per grade. This year grade 8 has 17% more students than grade 6 (363 against 309). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 93.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Aldine ISD (75.2%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.8% across Aldine 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

Grantham Academy has 72.17 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,006 students would have about 69.9 teachers, so Grantham Academy has 2.3 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other middle school is Mead Middle School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 12 middle schools within 5 miles and 49 within 10 miles.

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