UNITED MIDDLE

Set in LAREDO, Texas, UNITED MIDDLE is a sizable intermediate school, one of the schools within UNITED ISD. It hosts 999 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 55% above typical.

UNITED MIDDLE is one of 51 schools operated by UNITED ISD, a district that serves 40,742 students overall.

In terms of who attends, UNITED MIDDLE logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). Compared to Webb County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, UNITED MIDDLE has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 45% of students at UNITED MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Webb County (around 83%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, UNITED MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.1%, the actual is 66.7%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the broader community, Webb County reports that median household income runs about $63,058, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. UNITED MIDDLE is one of 95 public schools in Webb County (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students).

The closest other public school is TRAUTMANN EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UNITED MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, UNITED MIDDLE comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UNITED MIDDLE has ticked down 11%, going from 1,126 students in 2018 to 999 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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