MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE

MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE is one of the tight-knit intermediate schools in SAN BENITO, Texas, run under SAN BENITO CISD, with 477 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 26% below typical.

SAN BENITO CISD runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 9,137 students. MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cameron County (around 84%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of -1.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cameron County put the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE is one of 187 public schools in Cameron County (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students).

Nearest neighbor: CASH EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MILLER JORDAN MIDDLE has edged down 42%, going from 825 students in 2018 to 477 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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