LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE

Set in LAREDO, Texas, LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE is a reasonably sized middle school, operated by UNITED ISD. It hosts 757 students across grades 6 through 8.

Within UNITED ISD, which oversees 51 schools and 40,742 students, LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE logs that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Webb County's rate of about 83%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of +13.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Webb County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,058 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is VETERANS MEMORIAL EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. LAMAR BRUNI VERGARA MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 984 (now 757). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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