Kaffie Middle School

Size

Kaffie Middle School is the largest of Corpus Christi ISD's 10 middle schools; its 1,154 students are 3.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 632; Kaffie Middle School is larger than most of them.

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 433 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 359, against an average of 385 per grade. This year grade 8 has 17% fewer students than grade 6 (359 against 433). 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: 71.9% here and 82.2% across Corpus Christi ISD. White students are next, at 17.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

39.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.3% across Corpus Christi 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 57.45 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,154 students, Kaffie Middle School has 20.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,154 students would have about 80.1 teachers, so Kaffie Middle School has 22.6 fewer.

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

Location

Kaffie Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Grant Middle School, 2.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 14 other middle schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

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