Rafael a Cantu Junior High School

Size

Of the 4 middle schools in Mission CISD, Rafael a Cantu Junior High School is the smallest, with 4.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.1 miles away and have a median of 751 students, so Rafael a Cantu Junior High 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 199 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 195, against an average of 197 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 197 in grade 6 and 199 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Mission CISD (97.5%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.2% across Mission CISD 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

Rafael a Cantu Junior High School has 41.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 591 students would have about 41 teachers, so Rafael a Cantu Junior High School has about as many as that.

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 Sharyland North Junior High School, 1.7 miles away in Sharyland ISD. There are 12 middle schools within 5 miles and 26 within 10 miles.

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