Mary Hoge Middle School

Size

Mary Hoge Middle School is the 3rd largest of Weslaco ISD's 4 middle schools; its 830 students are 5.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 652; Mary Hoge 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 8 with 299 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 241, against an average of 277 per grade. This year grade 8 has 24% more students than grade 6 (299 against 241). 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: 99% here and 98% across Weslaco ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.2% across Weslaco 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 51.69 full-time-equivalent teachers for 830 students, Mary Hoge Middle School has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 830 students would have about 57.6 teachers, so Mary Hoge Middle School has 5.9 fewer.

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

Location

Mary Hoge Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Central Middle School, 2.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 17 other middle schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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