Sadler Means Ywla

Size

Of the 19 middle schools in Austin ISD, Sadler Means Ywla is the 16th largest, with 0.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 507; Sadler Means Ywla 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 105 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 71, against an average of 93 per grade. This year grade 8 has 48% more students than grade 6 (105 against 71). 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: 70.5% here and 54.4% across Austin ISD. Black students are next, at 16.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

80.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Austin 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 28.74 full-time-equivalent teachers for 278 students, Sadler Means Ywla has 9.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 278 students would have about 19.3 teachers, so Sadler Means Ywla has 9.4 more.

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

Location

Sadler Means Ywla is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Austin Achieve Middle School, 0.4 miles away in Austin Achieve Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 27 other middle schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

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