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DEL VALLE MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About DEL VALLE MIDDLE
DEL VALLE MIDDLE is one of the moderately sized 6-8 campuss in DEL VALLE, Texas, part of DEL VALLE ISD, with 895 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so DEL VALLE MIDDLE sits 39% bigger than that benchmark.
Within DEL VALLE ISD, which oversees 15 schools and 11,715 students, DEL VALLE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
Demographically, DEL VALLE MIDDLE records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Beyond that, the school logs 6% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, DEL VALLE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 24.6%, a residual of -11.6 points.
In the surrounding community, Travis County reports that median household earnings sit near $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which DEL VALLE MIDDLE is one.
The closest other public school is DEL VALLE EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DEL VALLE MIDDLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Over the past 7-year window. DEL VALLE MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 958 (now 895). Class-load math has rose: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.
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