NIMITZ MIDDLE

NIMITZ MIDDLE, a well-populated intermediate school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by NORTH EAST ISD, enrolls 995 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 55% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

NORTH EAST ISD runs 75 schools in total, collectively educating 56,420 students. NIMITZ MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Demographically, NIMITZ MIDDLE logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 13% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, NIMITZ MIDDLE logs 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting NIMITZ MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, NIMITZ MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.8%; this one delivers 38.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Bexar County shows median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), NIMITZ MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOMERSET ACADEMY LONE STAR, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NIMITZ MIDDLE at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 1,285 students in 2018 compared to 995 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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