Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle School

Size

Of the 4 middle schools in Southwest ISD, Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle School is the 3rd largest, with 5.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 428; Sharon Christa McAuliffe 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 7 with 269 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 247, against an average of 256 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 251 in grade 6 and 247 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 94.9% here and 89.3% across Southwest ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Southwest 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 52.46 full-time-equivalent teachers for 767 students, Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle School has 14.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 767 students would have about 53.3 teachers, so Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle School has about as many as that.

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

Location

Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Alan B Shepard Middle School, 1.6 miles away in South San Antonio ISD. Within 10 miles there are 34 other middle schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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