PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE

As a large intermediate school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE educates 1,140 students from grades 6 through 8, run under COMAL ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE sits 77% larger than that benchmark.

PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE is one of 37 schools operated by COMAL ISD, a district that enrolls 29,839 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE reports that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 43% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. Compared to Bexar County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 13% of students at PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.0%; this one delivers 68.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: PIEPER H S, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PIEPER RANCH MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

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