RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE

RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of mid-sized scale in ATASCOSA, Texas, overseen by SOUTHWEST ISD, teacheing 784 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 643.

Within SOUTHWEST ISD, which oversees 18 schools and 14,833 students, RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE reports that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% White, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at school resources, RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE shows 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is ELM CREEK EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.6%.

RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 729 (now 784).

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