JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores have held steady since 2024, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
About JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE
JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE operates as a compact middle school in LAREDO, Texas, one of the schools within UNITED ISD. Current enrollment sits at 521 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Within UNITED ISD, which oversees 51 schools and 40,742 students, JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
Demographically, JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Webb County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of +2.3 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Webb County put the typical household earns roughly $63,058 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE is one of 95 public schools in Webb County (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students).
The closest other public school is JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JUAN ROBERTO RAMIREZ MIDDLE at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 56.8%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
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