Public school / Middle
Shepherd Middle
Shepherd, Texas
- NCES ID
- 484002004542
- District
- Shepherd ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Shepherd Middle is a public middle school in Shepherd, Texas, run by Shepherd ISD. It enrols 458 students — the 42752nd 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
458
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
83.8%
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 Shepherd 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.
- 1Shepherd H S601 students
- 2Shepherd Pri499 students
- 3Shepherd Middle458 students
- 4Shepherd Int400 students
- Enrollment−11.9%
- Teachers−11.4%
- Students per teacher+1.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+18.4%
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