Melillo Middle School

Size

Melillo Middle School is the 10th largest of Pasadena ISD's 22 middle schools; its 612 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 802 students, so Melillo Middle School is smaller 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 5 with 322 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 290, against an average of 306 per grade. This year grade 6 has 10% fewer students than grade 5 (290 against 322). 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 68% of enrollment, a lower share than across Pasadena ISD (82.8%). Black students are next, at 14.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

64.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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

Melillo Middle School has 46.52 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 612 students would have about 42.5 teachers, so Melillo Middle School has 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 Thompson Intermediate School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 14 middle schools within 5 miles and 53 within 10 miles.

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