Jim Barnes Middle School

Size

Jim Barnes Middle School is the smallest of Seguin ISD's 2 middle schools; its 762 students are 10.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 13.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 806; Jim Barnes 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 270 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 234, against an average of 254 per grade. This year grade 8 has 13% fewer students than grade 6 (234 against 270). 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: 71.3% here and 71.6% across Seguin ISD. White students are next, at 22.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

70.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.7% across Seguin 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 49.97 full-time-equivalent teachers for 762 students, Jim Barnes Middle School has 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 762 students would have about 52.9 teachers, so Jim Barnes Middle School has 2.9 fewer.

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

Location

Jim Barnes Middle School is in a town no more than 10 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Briesemeister Middle School, 3.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 2 other middle schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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