Garcia Middle School

Size

Garcia Middle School is the 3rd largest of Brownsville ISD's 10 middle schools; its 870 students are 2.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 679; Garcia Middle School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 8 with 297 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 278, against an average of 290 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 295 in grade 6 and 297 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

87.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.3% across Brownsville ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 58.65 full-time-equivalent teachers for 870 students, Garcia Middle School has 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 870 students would have about 60.4 teachers, so Garcia Middle School has 1.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

Garcia Middle School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other middle school is Perkins Middle School, 1.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 10 other middle schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.