O Henry Middle School

Size

Of the 19 middle schools in Austin ISD, O Henry Middle School is the 9th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 928; O Henry 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 8 with 247 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 205, against an average of 229 per grade. This year grade 8 has 20% more students than grade 6 (247 against 205). 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 White students: 52.2% here and 30.4% across Austin ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 38%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

29.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Austin 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 42.86 full-time-equivalent teachers for 686 students, O Henry Middle School has 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 686 students would have about 47.6 teachers, so O Henry Middle School has 4.7 fewer.

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

Location

O Henry Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Hill Country Middle School, 2 miles away in Eanes ISD. Within 10 miles there are 29 other middle schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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