D J RED SIMON MIDDLE

D J RED SIMON MIDDLE operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in KYLE, Texas, overseen by HAYS CISD. Current enrollment sits at 898 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 40% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

HAYS CISD runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 24,330 students. D J RED SIMON MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, D J RED SIMON MIDDLE reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%); the rest looks like 8% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Hays County as a whole is about 39% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at D J RED SIMON MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hays County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, D J RED SIMON MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.3%; D J RED SIMON MIDDLE posts 30.4%, -17.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Hays County reports that median household income runs about $89,097, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Hays County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students), D J RED SIMON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HEMPHILL EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around D J RED SIMON MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, D J RED SIMON MIDDLE comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at D J RED SIMON MIDDLE has grew 19%, going from 757 students in 2018 to 898 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.