JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE

Located at 2600 PALO BLANCO ST, in LAREDO, Texas, JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE is a roomy junior high that works with 1,053 students (grades 6 through 8), run under LAREDO ISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 64% above typical.

LAREDO ISD comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 20,271 students; JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%).

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Webb County runs at roughly 83%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of +10.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Webb County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,058 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DR LEO CIGARROA H S, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE has decreased 20%, going from 1,319 students in 2018 to 1,053 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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