Nimitz Middle School

Size

Of the 6 middle schools in Ector County ISD, Nimitz Middle School is the largest, with 3.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 4.3 miles away and have a median of 1,002 students, so Nimitz 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 461 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 412, against an average of 437 per grade. This year grade 8 has 11% fewer students than grade 6 (412 against 461). 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 73.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Ector County ISD (81.4%). White students are next, at 17.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

67.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75.5% across Ector County 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

Nimitz Middle School has 65.76 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,310 students would have about 91 teachers, so Nimitz Middle School has 25.2 fewer.

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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other middle school is Bonham Middle School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. There are 6 middle schools within 5 miles and 6 within 10 miles.

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