ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE

Located at 5208 SANTA CLAUDIA LN, in LAREDO, Texas, ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack junior high that serves 664 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by UNITED ISD.

UNITED ISD comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 40,742 students; ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 90% of students at ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 34.5%; actual is 50.8%, +16.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Webb County put median household income runs about $63,058, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JUDITH ZAFFIRINI EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ANTONIO GONZALEZ MIDDLE comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 41%: 1,129 students in 2018 compared to 664 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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