Hobby Middle School

Size

Of the 22 middle schools in Northside ISD, Hobby Middle School is the 8th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 925; Hobby Middle School is close to their typical size.

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 6 with 426 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 268, against an average of 365 per grade. This year grade 8 has 37% fewer students than grade 6 (268 against 426). 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: 59.6% here and 68.3% across Northside ISD. White students are next, at 17.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

68.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 49.7% across Northside 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 75.03 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,094 students, Hobby Middle School has 14.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,094 students would have about 76 teachers, so Hobby Middle School has 1 fewer.

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

Location

Hobby Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Alternative Middle School, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 37 other middle schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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