Tom and Nita Nichols Middle School

Size

Tom and Nita Nichols Middle School is the smallest of Joshua ISD's 2 middle schools; its 654 students are 10.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 5.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 793; Tom and Nita Nichols 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 6 with 237 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 205, against an average of 218 per grade. This year grade 8 has 14% fewer students than grade 6 (205 against 237). 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 White students: 65.1% here and 55.9% across Joshua ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 28.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

37.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 44.4% across Joshua 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 33.32 full-time-equivalent teachers for 654 students, Tom and Nita Nichols Middle School has 19.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 654 students would have about 45.4 teachers, so Tom and Nita Nichols Middle School has 12.1 fewer.

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

Location

Tom and Nita Nichols Middle School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other middle school is STEAM Middle School, 3.7 miles away in Burleson ISD. Within 10 miles there are 11 other middle schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

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