VETERANS MIDDLE

VETERANS MIDDLE is an intermediate school of mid-tier scale in RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas, one of the schools within RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD, caters to 734 students in grades 6 through 8.

VETERANS MIDDLE is one of 15 schools operated by RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD, a district that caters to 9,316 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VETERANS MIDDLE logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Starr County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, VETERANS MIDDLE logs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting VETERANS MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, VETERANS MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.5%.

In the surrounding community, Starr County reports that median household income runs about $37,639, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 31% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Starr County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,900 students), of which VETERANS MIDDLE is one.

GENERAL RICARDO SANCHEZ EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, VETERANS MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 894 students in 2018 compared to 734 in 2025.

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