Pin Oak Middle School

Size

Of the 42 middle schools in Houston ISD, Pin Oak Middle School is the 4th largest, with 0.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 400; Pin Oak 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 484 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 384, against an average of 418 per grade. This year grade 8 has 20% fewer students than grade 6 (385 against 484). 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: 39.8% here and 61.7% across Houston ISD. White students are next, at 29.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

42.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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 64.51 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,253 students, Pin Oak Middle School has 19.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,253 students would have about 87 teachers, so Pin Oak Middle School has 22.5 fewer.

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

Location

Pin Oak 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 Friends for Life Middle School, 1.3 miles away in Amigos Por Vida-Friends for Life Pub Chtr School. Within 10 miles there are 70 other middle schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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