Pieper Ranch Middle School

Size

Of the 8 middle schools in Comal ISD, Pieper Ranch Middle School is the 2nd largest, with 3.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 5.7 miles away and have a median of 794 students, so Pieper Ranch 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 476 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 261, against an average of 380 per grade. This year grade 8 has 82% more students than grade 6 (476 against 261). 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

White students are the largest group, at 46.1% of enrollment, a lower share than across Comal ISD (49.7%). Hispanic students are next, at 43.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

13.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 28.9% across Comal 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

Pieper Ranch Middle School has 66.81 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,140 students would have about 79.2 teachers, so Pieper Ranch Middle School has 12.4 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 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 Bulverde Middle School, 2.7 miles away in the same district. There are 2 middle schools within 5 miles and 10 within 10 miles.

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