PATTI WELDER MIDDLE

Set in VICTORIA, Texas, PATTI WELDER MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, part of VICTORIA ISD. It hosts 566 students across grades 6 through 8.

PATTI WELDER MIDDLE is one of 25 schools operated by VICTORIA ISD, a district that serves 12,919 students overall.

On demographics, PATTI WELDER MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 16% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Victoria County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PATTI WELDER MIDDLE has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at PATTI WELDER MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Victoria County (around 69%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PATTI WELDER MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.6%; PATTI WELDER MIDDLE posts 20.5%, -17.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Victoria County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $70,896 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Victoria County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students), of which PATTI WELDER MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: HOPKINS EL, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PATTI WELDER MIDDLE comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 609 students in 2018 compared to 566 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 9% to 4% across the same window.

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