GUS GARCIA MIDDLE

GUS GARCIA MIDDLE is a reasonably sized intermediate school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, overseen by EDGEWOOD ISD. The school teaches 684 students in grades 6 through 8.

GUS GARCIA MIDDLE is one of 29 schools operated by EDGEWOOD ISD, a district that educates 9,461 students overall.

In terms of who attends, GUS GARCIA MIDDLE logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The remainder looks like 3% Asian. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GUS GARCIA MIDDLE has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting GUS GARCIA MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, GUS GARCIA 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 29.5%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which GUS GARCIA MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: CARDENAS CENTER, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GUS GARCIA MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 25.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, GUS GARCIA MIDDLE runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GUS GARCIA MIDDLE has decreased 8%, going from 740 students in 2018 to 684 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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