Gus Garcia Middle School

Size

Gus Garcia Middle School is the largest of Edgewood ISD's 3 middle schools; its 684 students are 8.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 435; Gus Garcia Middle School is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 246 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 210, against an average of 228 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 228 in grade 6 and 210 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 95.3% here and 96.4% across Edgewood ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood 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 36.94 full-time-equivalent teachers for 684 students, Gus Garcia Middle School has 18.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 684 students would have about 47.5 teachers, so Gus Garcia Middle School has 10.6 fewer.

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

Location

Gus Garcia Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is KIPP Camino Academy, 0.7 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 55 other middle schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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