LUNA MIDDLE

LUNA MIDDLE operates as a high-enrollment junior high in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under NORTHSIDE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,114 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 73% larger than the state mean of about 643.

Across the 128 schools in NORTHSIDE ISD (100,435 students total), LUNA MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, LUNA MIDDLE lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder is composed of 15% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, On paper, LUNA MIDDLE has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting LUNA MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LUNA MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 54.1%; this one comes in at 39.1%, -14.9 points off the demographic line.

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

Nearest neighbor: OTT EL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LUNA MIDDLE comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 1,358 students in 2018 compared to 1,114 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 62% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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