W B GREEN J H

As a compact middle school in LA FERIA, Texas, W B GREEN J H enrolls 391 students from grades 7 through 8, operated by LA FERIA ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so W B GREEN J H sits 39% smaller than that benchmark.

Within LA FERIA ISD, which oversees 8 schools and 2,861 students, W B GREEN J H is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, W B GREEN J H lists that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, W B GREEN J H lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, W B GREEN J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 35.4%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Cameron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. W B GREEN J H is one of 187 public schools in Cameron County (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students).

The closest other public school is LA FERIA ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W B GREEN J H. On composite proficiency, W B GREEN J H comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 22%: 504 students in 2018 compared to 391 in 2025.

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