Southmore Intermediate School

Size

Southmore Intermediate School is the 5th largest of Pasadena ISD's 22 middle schools; its 673 students are 1.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 530 students, so Southmore Intermediate 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 8 with 352 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 321, against an average of 337 per grade. This year grade 8 has 10% more students than grade 7 (352 against 321). 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 92.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Pasadena ISD (82.8%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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

Southmore Intermediate School has 49.73 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 673 students would have about 46.7 teachers, so Southmore Intermediate School has 3 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other middle school is Bobby Shaw Middle School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 24 middle schools within 5 miles and 59 within 10 miles.

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