GARCIA MIDDLE

GARCIA MIDDLE is a medium-sized middle-grades school in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, overseen by BROWNSVILLE ISD. The school educates 870 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 35% above the state mean of about 643.

BROWNSVILLE ISD runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 37,097 students. GARCIA MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GARCIA MIDDLE lists that nearly all students (100%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 89% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GARCIA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.6%, the actual is 44.7%, a residual of +9.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cameron County) records that the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which GARCIA MIDDLE is one.

PENA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GARCIA MIDDLE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GARCIA MIDDLE has edged down 22%, going from 1,112 students in 2018 to 870 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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