Secondary DAEP

Size

Secondary DAEP is the smallest of Houston ISD's 42 middle schools; its 38 students are 0% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 320 students, so Secondary DAEP 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.

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 7 with 16 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 8, against an average of 13 per grade. This year grade 8 has 75% more students than grade 6 (14 against 8). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 52.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (20.8%). Hispanic students are next, at 39.5%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

97.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

Secondary DAEP has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 1.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 38 students would have about 2.6 teachers, so Secondary DAEP has 18.4 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Marshall Middle School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 18 middle schools within 5 miles and 63 within 10 miles.

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