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What's one thing HARLANDALE MIDDLE gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
732
Middle
DISTRICT 400 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARLANDALE ISD·NCES 482247002261
Harlandale Middle School
300 W HUFF AVE, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78214 · (210) 989-2000 · Bexar County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL732 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of Texas public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.5:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
653 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 225 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 259 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 248 | 34% |
Student demographics
4%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 5% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
41.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +21.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
29.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +9.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 15.0% | 26.0% | 28.0% | 31.0% |
| Mathematics | 7.0% | 22.0% | 28.0% | 43.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 41.0% | 29.0% |
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 23.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 21.0% |
| 2022-23 | 22.0% | 24.0% |
| 2021-22 | 30.0% | 23.0% |
| 2020-21 | 20.0% | 20.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Harlandale Middle School
Harlandale Middle School's state test result (28.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlandale Middle School this school | 732 | 89.2% | 28.2% |
| Zapata Middle School ZAPATA | 730 | 88.2% | 30.0% |
| Ricardo Molina Middle School LAREDO | 769 | 90.4% | 49.0% |
| Roma Middle School ROMA | 776 | 90.2% | 50.0% |
| Whittier Middle School SAN ANTONIO | 656 | 89.2% | 27.3% |
| Antonio Gonzalez Middle School LAREDO | 664 | 90.2% | 47.2% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Harlandale Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #1,447 of 1,635 | #62 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #1,400 of 1,670 ▲ 112 | #51 of 84 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,427 of 1,670 ▲ 21 | #58 of 84 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.0pp | #675 of 1,570 | #21 of 80 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 732 | #688 of 1,749 | #42 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #899 of 1,542 | #43 of 80 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.0% | #1,458 of 1,543 | #79 of 80 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.2% | #274 of 1,648 | #26 of 87 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.9% | #566 of 942 | #39 of 60 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
732
-127 (-15%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 1,049
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 732 | 48.3 | 15.2:1 | 89% (653) |
| 2023-24 | 778 | 57.4 | 13.6:1 | 90% (700) |
| 2022-23 | 770 | 58.7 | 13.1:1 | 90% (692) |
| 2020-21 | 859 | 61 | 14.1:1 | 85% (731) |
| 2017-18 | 831 | 58.9 | 14.1:1 | 87% (724) |
| 2015-16 | 839 | 60 | 14.0:1 | 82% (692) |
| 2010-11 | 886 | 53 | 16.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 938 | 64 | 14.7:1 | 20% (188) |
| 1990-91 | 1,049 | 69 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harlandale Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (831 to 732); teachers down 18% (58.9 to 48.3).
About Harlandale Middle School
Harlandale Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school in HARLANDALE ISD, located in SAN ANTONIO, Texas. The grade span is 6 through 8, and enrollment is 732 students.
HARLANDALE ISD enrolls 11,564 students, and its 21 schools include Harlandale Middle School.
At Harlandale Middle School, Hispanic students make up 98% of the student body. By comparison, Bexar County residents are about 60% Hispanic. Harlandale Middle School has a diversity index of 4%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 48.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.2:1. The 14.4:1 average for middle schools in Texas is lower than this school's figure. Roughly 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Bexar County report 63%.
Harlandale Middle School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 19% of Texas public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Harlandale Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 28.2% and a predicted 35.6%.
Across Bexar County, median household income is about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. The public schools of Bexar County number 638 and enroll about 368,487.
The closest other public school is Harlandale High School, about 0.2 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 28.2% is below the 33.9% average for nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Harlandale Middle School had 859 students in 2020-21 and 732 in 2024-25, a 15% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.1:1 to 15.2:1.
If you have questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Harlandale Middle School, you can post them here. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HARLANDALE ISD
- Harlandale High SchoolHigh · 1,652 students
- McCollum High SchoolHigh · 1,502 students
- V M Adams Elementary SchoolElementary · 732 students
- H W Schulze Elementary SchoolElementary · 726 students
- Stonewall/Flanders Elementary SchoolElementary · 691 students
- Bellaire Elementary SchoolElementary · 674 students
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 3,362 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
Nearby schools
- Harlandale High School0.2 mi · 1,652
- Wright Elementary School0.3 mi · 430
- V M Adams Elementary School0.4 mi · 732
- E H Gilbert Elementary School0.9 mi · 633
- IDEA South Flores Academy1.1 mi · 680
- IDEA South Flores College Preparatory1.1 mi · 715
Frequently asked questions
About Harlandale Middle SchoolHow large is Harlandale Middle School?
Harlandale Middle School enrolls approximately 732 students in grades 06-08.
Is Harlandale Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Harlandale Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Harlandale Middle School have?
Harlandale Middle School employs 48 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Harlandale Middle School?
Student demographics at Harlandale Middle School are roughly 2% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Black.
What district is Harlandale Middle School in?
Harlandale Middle School is part of HARLANDALE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.