Keefer Crossing Middle School

Size

Keefer Crossing Middle School is the 2nd largest of New Caney ISD's 4 middle schools; its 1,271 students are 6.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 6.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 800; Keefer Crossing 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 463 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 390, against an average of 424 per grade. This year grade 8 has 10% fewer students than grade 6 (418 against 463). 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: 66% here and 63.1% across New Caney ISD. White students are next, at 22.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.5% across New Caney ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 79.46 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,271 students, Keefer Crossing Middle School has 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,271 students would have about 88.3 teachers, so Keefer Crossing Middle School has 8.8 fewer.

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

Location

Keefer Crossing Middle School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Pine Valley Middle School, 3.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 15 other middle schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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