Tennyson Middle School

Size

Tennyson Middle School is the largest of Waco ISD's 3 middle schools; its 963 students are 7.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 5.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 637; Tennyson 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 6 with 333 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 299, against an average of 321 per grade. This year grade 8 has 10% fewer students than grade 6 (299 against 333). 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: 57.9% here and 62.5% across Waco ISD. Black students are next, at 27.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.1% across Waco ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 61.87 full-time-equivalent teachers for 963 students, Tennyson Middle School has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 963 students would have about 66.9 teachers, so Tennyson Middle School has 5 fewer.

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

Location

Tennyson Middle School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other middle school is Midway Middle School, 3.2 miles away in Midway ISD. Within 10 miles there are 13 other middle schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

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