MEDINA VALLEY LOMA ALTA MIDDLE

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, MEDINA VALLEY LOMA ALTA MIDDLE is an expansive middle school, part of MEDINA VALLEY ISD. It enrolls 1,046 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 63% larger than the state mean of about 643.

MEDINA VALLEY ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 9,638 students; MEDINA VALLEY LOMA ALTA MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, MEDINA VALLEY LOMA ALTA MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 18% White, 9% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Medina County as a whole is about 52% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, MEDINA VALLEY LOMA ALTA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 55.8%, a residual of +3.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Medina County shows median household earnings sit near $78,074, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Medina County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,127 students), MEDINA VALLEY LOMA ALTA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is POTRANCO EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MEDINA VALLEY LOMA ALTA MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 49.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

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