Las Americas

Size

Las Americas is the 41st largest of Houston ISD's 42 middle schools; its 111 students are 0.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 425 students, so Las Americas is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

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 51 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 30, against an average of 37 per grade. This year grade 8 has 70% more students than grade 6 (51 against 30). 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 84.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

98.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

Las Americas has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 111 students would have about 7.7 teachers, so Las Americas has 5.3 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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Energized for Excellence Academy Inc Middle School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 18 middle schools within 5 miles and 62 within 10 miles.

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