OLIVEIRA MIDDLE

OLIVEIRA MIDDLE, an average-sized middle school in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, operated by BROWNSVILLE ISD, educates 699 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Within BROWNSVILLE ISD, which oversees 52 schools and 37,097 students, OLIVEIRA MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, OLIVEIRA MIDDLE lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cameron County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, OLIVEIRA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cameron County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), OLIVEIRA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: EGLY EL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OLIVEIRA MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OLIVEIRA MIDDLE at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 50.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 36%: 1,098 students in 2018 compared to 699 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for OLIVEIRA MIDDLE typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.