Middle · Texas
Michael E Fossum Middle
Free meals for allMichael E Fossum Middle, a public middle school in Mcallen, Texas: grades 6–8, 791 students, 14.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mcallen 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
- 791
- Teachers (FTE)
- 53.9
- Students per teacher
- 14.7
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 55% of middle schools in Texas
Median 14.4 · 1,726 schools compared
More students per teacher than 51% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 67% of middle schools in Texas
Median 633 · 1,741 schools compared
Larger than 78% 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
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Mcallen ISD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mcallen ISD.
Location
- Address
- 7800 N Ware Rd, Mcallen, TX 78504
- Phone
- (956)971-1105
- City or town
- McAllen
- County
- Hidalgo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Morris MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 999 | 14.9 |
Sharyland North J HFree meals for all | 7–8 | 791 | 16.1 |
De Leon MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 664 | 11.9 |
Rafael A Cantu J HFree meals for all | 6–8 | 591 | 14.2 |
Elias Longoria Sr MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 770 | 12.2 |
B L Garza MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 1,035 | 12.0 |
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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