DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE

DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE is a junior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in PENITAS, Texas, run under LA JOYA ISD, educateing 601 students in grades 6 through 8.

LA JOYA ISD comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 22,942 students; DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE shows that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE records 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

After controlling for student poverty, DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.9%; this one delivers 38.9%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is WILLIAM J CLINTON EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.7%.

DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. DR JAVIER SAENZ MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 816 (now 601). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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