Public school / Middle
Desoto West Middle
Desoto, Texas
- NCES ID
- 481686006396
- District
- Desoto ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Desoto West Middle is a public middle school in Desoto, Texas, run by Desoto ISD. It enrols 439 students — the 45414th largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
439
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
14.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
69.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Desoto ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Desoto H S2,216 students
- 2Curtistene S Mccowan Middle773 students
- 3Cockrell Hill El756 students
- 4Woodridge El601 students
- 5Frank D Moates El524 students
- 6Desoto West Middle439 students
- 7Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy432 students
- 8The Meadows El369 students
- Enrollment−15.6%
- Teachers−11.4%
- Students per teacher−2.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−1.3%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory