The Summit (Intermediate)

Size

The Summit (Intermediate) is the smallest of Pasadena ISD's 22 middle schools; its 76 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 646 students, so The Summit (Intermediate) 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 34 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 1, against an average of 19 per grade. This year grade 8 has 3,000% more students than grade 5 (31 against 1). 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 75% of enrollment, a lower share than across Pasadena ISD (82.8%). Black students are next, at 11.8%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.2% 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

The Summit (Intermediate) has 10.62 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 7.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 76 students would have about 5.3 teachers, so The Summit (Intermediate) has 5.3 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 San Jacinto Intermediate School, 0.2 miles away in the same district. There are 20 middle schools within 5 miles and 50 within 10 miles.

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