JEFFERSON MIDDLE

JEFFERSON MIDDLE is a middle school of high-enrollment scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by NORTHSIDE ISD, teacheing 990 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 54% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

NORTHSIDE ISD comprises 128 schools with combined enrollment of 100,435 students; JEFFERSON MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, JEFFERSON MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 22% White, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, JEFFERSON MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. JEFFERSON MIDDLE is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

WARD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JEFFERSON MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 34%: 1,509 students in 2018 compared to 990 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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