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MYRA GREEN MIDDLE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 49 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 29 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MYRA GREEN MIDDLE
As a close-knit middle school in RAYMONDVILLE, Texas, MYRA GREEN MIDDLE caters to 399 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within RAYMONDVILLE ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so MYRA GREEN MIDDLE sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.
RAYMONDVILLE ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,963 students; MYRA GREEN MIDDLE is among them.
On the student-mix side, MYRA GREEN MIDDLE reports that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MYRA GREEN MIDDLE has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Willacy County runs at roughly 81%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MYRA GREEN MIDDLE sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 34.8%; actual is 52.8%, +18.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, Willacy County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,180 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MYRA GREEN MIDDLE is one of 15 public schools in Willacy County (combined enrollment of about 3,889 students).
RAYMONDVILLE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around MYRA GREEN MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MYRA GREEN MIDDLE at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 41.6%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Over the past 7-year window. MYRA GREEN MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 436 (now 399).
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