H S Ahead Academy

Size

H S Ahead Academy is the 40th largest of Houston ISD's 42 middle schools; its 151 students are 0.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 553 students, so H S Ahead Academy 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 70 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 22, against an average of 50 per grade. This year grade 8 has 218% more students than grade 6 (70 against 22). 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 58.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). Black students are next, at 38.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.4% of students qualify 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

H S Ahead Academy has 7.92 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 151 students would have about 10.5 teachers, so H S Ahead Academy has 2.6 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Williams Middle School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 18 middle schools within 5 miles and 59 within 10 miles.

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