FAULK MIDDLE

As an average-sized middle school in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, FAULK MIDDLE serves 885 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by BROWNSVILLE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so FAULK MIDDLE sits 38% above that benchmark.

BROWNSVILLE ISD comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 37,097 students; FAULK MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FAULK MIDDLE records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 89% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cameron County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, FAULK MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of +14.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cameron County put the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), FAULK MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CANALES EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FAULK MIDDLE at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 42.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. FAULK MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,142 (now 885). Class-load math has tightened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the FAULK MIDDLE community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.