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STILLMAN MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 52 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 35 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About STILLMAN MIDDLE
STILLMAN MIDDLE is one of the mid-sized 6-8 campuss in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, run under BROWNSVILLE ISD, with 964 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 50% bigger than the state mean of about 643.
STILLMAN MIDDLE is one of 52 schools operated by BROWNSVILLE ISD, a district that works with 37,097 students overall.
Demographically, STILLMAN MIDDLE records that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.
Looking at school resources, STILLMAN MIDDLE shows 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Cameron County's rate of about 84%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STILLMAN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of +13.1 points.
Across the wider county, Cameron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which STILLMAN MIDDLE is one.
YTURRIA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STILLMAN MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, STILLMAN MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.2%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STILLMAN MIDDLE has ticked down 10%, going from 1,077 students in 2018 to 964 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.
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