Jaime Escalante Middle School

Size

Jaime Escalante Middle School is the 7th largest of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD's 8 middle schools; its 554 students are 1.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 4.4 miles away and have a median of 635 students, so Jaime Escalante 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 8 with 193 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 174, against an average of 185 per grade. This year grade 8 has 11% more students than grade 6 (193 against 174). 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

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

98.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo 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

Jaime Escalante Middle School has 50.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 554 students would have about 38.5 teachers, so Jaime Escalante Middle School has 11.7 more.

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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other middle school is Kennedy Middle School, 2.3 miles away in the same district. There are 7 middle schools within 5 miles and 21 within 10 miles.

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