JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE

JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE operates as a medium-sized middle school in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by DEL VALLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 759 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

DEL VALLE ISD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 11,715 students; JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE records that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 6% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 23.3%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Travis County shows the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE is one.

SMITH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHN P OJEDA MIDDLE ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 31.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 906 students in 2018 compared to 759 in 2025.

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