STEM MIDDLE

STEM MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of mid-tier scale in VICTORIA, Texas, overseen by VICTORIA ISD, caters to 641 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 25 schools in VICTORIA ISD (12,919 students total), STEM MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STEM MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment; the rest reads as 14% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Victoria County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, STEM MIDDLE lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting STEM MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Victoria County's rate of about 69%.

After controlling for student poverty, STEM MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.9%; this one comes in at 20.9%, -19.0 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Victoria County shows median household income runs about $70,896, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Victoria County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students), of which STEM MIDDLE is one.

SMITH STEM ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STEM MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

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