JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE

JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE is a junior high of reasonably sized scale in PHARR, Texas, run under PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD, hosting 554 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 44 schools in PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (29,749 students total), JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE reports that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.0%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +13.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: CESAR CHAVEZ EL, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 627 (now 554). Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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