Ruth Jones McClendon Middle School

Size

Ruth Jones McClendon Middle School is the only high school in George Gervin Academy. Its 72 students are 8.3% of the district's 865. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.5 miles away and have a median of 466 students, so Ruth Jones McClendon Middle School is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools. As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 11 with 34 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 2, against an average of 12 per grade. This year grade 12 has 500% more students than grade 7 (12 against 2). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 58.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across George Gervin Academy (57.7%). Black students are next, at 36.1%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across George Gervin Academy and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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

Ruth Jones McClendon Middle School has 2.96 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 24.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 72 students would have about 5.1 teachers, so Ruth Jones McClendon Middle School has 2.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Northeast Campus, 0.9 miles away in Southwest Preparatory School. There are 21 high schools within 5 miles and 69 within 10 miles.

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