DE LA PAZ MIDDLE

DE LA PAZ MIDDLE is an intermediate school of tiny scale in RIVIERA, Texas, run under RIVIERA ISD, caters to 101 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 84% below the state mean of about 643.

RIVIERA ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 425 students. DE LA PAZ MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, DE LA PAZ MIDDLE lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%; the rest reads as 26% White, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Kleberg County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at DE LA PAZ MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kleberg County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DE LA PAZ MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kleberg County) logs that median household income runs about $61,292, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Kleberg County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,746 students), DE LA PAZ MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

KAUFER H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DE LA PAZ MIDDLE at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.