Harris Middle School

Size

Harris Middle School is the largest of San Antonio ISD's 14 middle schools; its 719 students are 1.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 466; Harris 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 8 with 262 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 224, against an average of 240 per grade. This year grade 8 has 17% more students than grade 6 (262 against 224). 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 Hispanic students: 97.4% here and 89.8% across San Antonio ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.2% across San Antonio 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 49 full-time-equivalent teachers for 719 students, Harris Middle School has 14.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 719 students would have about 49.9 teachers, so Harris Middle School has about as many as that.

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

Location

Harris 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 Aspire Academy, 0.6 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 45 other middle schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

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