ELIAS HERRERA MIDDLE

Set in LAREDO, Texas, ELIAS HERRERA MIDDLE is a high-enrollment middle school, part of UNITED ISD. It enrolls 1,146 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 78% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

UNITED ISD comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 40,742 students; ELIAS HERRERA MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, ELIAS HERRERA MIDDLE logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Webb County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Webb County's rate of about 83%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ELIAS HERRERA MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.6%; this one delivers 61.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Webb County) logs that median household income runs about $63,058, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Webb County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), of which ELIAS HERRERA MIDDLE is one.

MATIAS DE LLANO EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ELIAS HERRERA MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

ELIAS HERRERA MIDDLE operates from a metropolitan location.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.