Shotwell Middle School

Size

Shotwell Middle School is the 10th largest of Aldine ISD's 15 middle schools; its 832 students are 1.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 895 students, so Shotwell 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 8 with 303 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 264, against an average of 277 per grade. This year grade 8 has 15% more students than grade 6 (303 against 264). 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 76.7% of enrollment, about the same share as across Aldine ISD (75.2%). Black students are next, at 19%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.8% across Aldine 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

Shotwell Middle School has 71.46 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 832 students would have about 57.8 teachers, so Shotwell Middle School has 13.7 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other middle school is Harmony School of Technology-Houston, 1 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - Houston North. There are 13 middle schools within 5 miles and 51 within 10 miles.

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