Iltexas Houston Orem Middle School

Size

Iltexas Houston Orem Middle School is the 9th largest of International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas)'s 18 middle schools; its 410 students are 1.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 462; Iltexas Houston Orem Middle School is close to their typical size.

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 6 with 152 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 127, against an average of 137 per grade. This year grade 8 has 16% fewer students than grade 6 (127 against 152). 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 Black students: 52.2% here and 25% across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas). Hispanic students are next, at 45.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.7% across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas) 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 23.92 full-time-equivalent teachers for 410 students, Iltexas Houston Orem Middle School has 17.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 410 students would have about 28.5 teachers, so Iltexas Houston Orem Middle School has 4.6 fewer.

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

Location

Iltexas Houston Orem Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Thomas Middle School, 0.8 miles away in Houston ISD. Within 10 miles there are 61 other middle schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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