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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 9

Houston Middle School, Hobbs, NM

CEP schoolHouston Middle School is a public middle school in Hobbs, part of Hobbs School District. It enrolled 822 students in 2024-25, with 18.7 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "HOUSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
822
Teachers (FTE)
44.0
Students per teacher
18.7
Grades
6 to 9

This school's ratio is 2.3 higher than the district figure of 16.4. The New Mexico average across schools is 13.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.7
District16.4
New Mexico13.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
300 North Houston, Hobbs, NM 88240
Phone
(575)433-1300
District
Hobbs School District
County
Lea County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Remote
NCES school ID
350126000351
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
488
Reduced-price lunch
29
Free or reduced-price lunch
51762.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
385Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Hobbs School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.