BESTEIRO MIDDLE

BESTEIRO MIDDLE, a mid-tier middle school in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, overseen by BROWNSVILLE ISD, hosts 558 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

BROWNSVILLE ISD comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 37,097 students; BESTEIRO MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, BESTEIRO MIDDLE lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 89% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, BESTEIRO MIDDLE reports 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cameron County (around 84%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, BESTEIRO MIDDLE ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.6%; BESTEIRO MIDDLE posts 48.2%, +15.6 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cameron County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. BESTEIRO MIDDLE is one of 187 public schools in Cameron County (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students).

AIKEN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BESTEIRO MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 45.1%.

BESTEIRO MIDDLE operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. BESTEIRO MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 705 (now 558).

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