Robert C Zamora Middle School

Size

Of the 3 middle schools in South San Antonio ISD, Robert C Zamora Middle School is the largest, with 8.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 521; Robert C Zamora 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 241 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 194, against an average of 218 per grade. This year grade 8 has 20% fewer students than grade 6 (194 against 241). 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: 95.4% here and 94% across South San Antonio ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.6% across South San Antonio 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 41.86 full-time-equivalent teachers for 655 students, Robert C Zamora Middle School has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 655 students would have about 45.5 teachers, so Robert C Zamora Middle School has 3.6 fewer.

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

Location

Robert C Zamora Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Greg a Garcia Early College Intermediate School, 1.4 miles away in New Frontiers Public Schools Inc. Within 10 miles there are 37 other middle schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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