MARY HOGE MIDDLE

MARY HOGE MIDDLE, a moderately sized 6-8 campus in WESLACO, Texas, one of the schools within WESLACO ISD, instructs 830 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% larger than the state mean of about 643.

Within WESLACO ISD, which oversees 20 schools and 16,300 students, MARY HOGE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, MARY HOGE MIDDLE shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%).

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at MARY HOGE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MARY HOGE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, Hidalgo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MARY HOGE MIDDLE is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

A N RICO EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARY HOGE MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, MARY HOGE MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 21%: 1,048 students in 2018 compared to 830 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.