Middle · Texas
Merkel Middle
Free meals for allMerkel Middle, a public middle school in Merkel, Texas: grades 6–8, 246 students, 9.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Merkel ISD.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 246
- Teachers (FTE)
- 26.5
- Students per teacher
- 9.3
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 97% of middle schools in Texas
Median 14.4 · 1,726 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 94% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 84% of middle schools in Texas
Median 633 · 1,741 schools compared
Smaller than 82% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Distant rural area
- Run by
- Merkel ISD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Merkel ISD.
Location
- Address
- 302 Ash, Merkel, TX 79536
- Phone
- (325)928-5511
- City or town
- Merkel
- County
- Taylor County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Clack MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 693 | 14.1 |
Mann MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 776 | 16.0 |
Hawley MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 193 | 8.9 |
Madison MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 770 | 15.9 |
| 5–8 | 1,038 | 16.9 | |
Craig MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 771 | 14.3 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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