William D Slider Middle School

Size

William D Slider Middle School is the 8th largest of Socorro ISD's 11 middle schools; its 627 students are 1.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 704; William D Slider 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 232 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 194, against an average of 209 per grade. This year grade 8 has 15% more students than grade 6 (232 against 201). 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: 96.5% here and 91% across Socorro ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

74.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.1% across Socorro 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

With 40.87 full-time-equivalent teachers for 627 students, William D Slider Middle School has 15.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 627 students would have about 43.5 teachers, so William D Slider Middle School has 2.6 fewer.

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

Location

William D Slider Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is El Paso Leadership Academy - Middle East, 1 miles away in El Paso Leadership Academy. Within 10 miles there are 21 other middle schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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