Katy Junior High School

Size

Katy Junior High School is the 11th largest of Katy ISD's 18 middle schools; its 1,155 students are 1.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.5 miles away and have a median of 1,154 students, so Katy Junior High 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 7 with 417 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 349, against an average of 385 per grade. This year grade 8 has 10% fewer students than grade 6 (349 against 389). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 42.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Katy ISD (36.4%). White students are next, at 34.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

47.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42.7% across Katy 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

Katy Junior High School has 83.64 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,155 students would have about 80.2 teachers, so Katy Junior High School has 3.4 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other middle school is Iltexas Katy Middle School, 0.9 miles away in International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas). There are 10 middle schools within 5 miles and 28 within 10 miles.

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