Alternative Middle School

Alternative Middle School is a very small middle school located in SAN ANTONIO, Texas. The school counted 65 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in Texas enroll about 643 students on average.

NORTHSIDE ISD has 127 schools and 100,208 students, and Alternative Middle School is one of those schools.

Hispanic students are 80% of those enrolled at Alternative Middle School. The rest of enrollment is 9% White and 8% Black. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Bexar County's population at about 60%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 35, compared with 70 nationally.

Alternative Middle School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 4.3:1. Middle schools in Texas average 14.4:1, 10.0 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 68% at Alternative Middle School.

In Bexar County, median household income comes to about $72,341, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Bexar County counts 638 public schools with about 368,487 students.

Less than a tenth of a mile separates Alternative Middle School from the closest public school, Chavez Excel Academy. The five-mile area around Alternative Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools.

The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.

Federal records list enrollment at Alternative Middle School as 2 in 2020-21 and 65 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. The ratio was 0.1:1 in 2020-21 and 4.3:1 in 2024-25.

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