San Benito Riverside Middle School

Size

San Benito Riverside Middle School is the 2nd largest of San Benito CISD's 4 middle schools; its 558 students are 6.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 9 miles away with a median enrollment of 691; San Benito Riverside Middle School is close to their typical size.

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 212 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 163, against an average of 186 per grade. This year grade 8 has 14% fewer students than grade 6 (183 against 212). 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: 99.1% here and 97.9% across San Benito CISD.

90.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 84.8% across San Benito 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

With 43.17 full-time-equivalent teachers for 558 students, San Benito Riverside Middle School has 12.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 558 students would have about 38.8 teachers, so San Benito Riverside Middle School has 4.4 more.

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

Location

San Benito Riverside Middle School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other middle school is Miller Jordan Middle School, 6.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 6 other middle schools, 0 of them within 5 miles.

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