DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in DEVINE, Texas, run under DEVINE ISD, hosting 454 students in grades 3 through 5.

DEVINE ISD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,972 students; DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 28% White. By comparison, Medina County as a whole is about 52% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.6%; DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL posts 33.7%, -13.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Medina County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,074 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 24 public schools in Medina County (combined enrollment of about 13,127 students).

Nearest neighbor: JOHN J CIAVARRA EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DEVINE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 440 students in 2018 compared to 454 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 64% to 70% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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