VALE MIDDLE

VALE MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of average-sized scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by NORTHSIDE ISD, caters to 846 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 32% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

NORTHSIDE ISD runs 128 schools in total, collectively educating 100,435 students. VALE MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VALE MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment; the rest consists of 12% White, 7% Black, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at school resources, VALE MIDDLE shows 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VALE MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.1%; this one comes in at 34.0%, -14.1 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bexar County put the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. VALE MIDDLE is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

BASIS SAN ANTONIO PRI - JACK LEWIS JR CAMPUS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VALE MIDDLE at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 42.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. VALE MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 36% since 2018, when it stood at 1,330 (now 846). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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