Salvador Garcia Middle, Rio Bravo TX

Original Research by School Decision on Salvador Garcia Middle

Salvador Garcia Middle is a public middle school serving grades six through eight in Rio Bravo, a small border community in Webb County. The school has an enrollment of about three to four hundred students, nearly all of whom qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is nearly entirely Hispanic, with only one non-Hispanic student in the school.

Rio Bravo itself is a blue-collar, residential town with a predominantly Hispanic population and older housing stock. The community is rural in character, car-dependent, with most residents owning detached single-family homes or mobile homes. The town has experienced population decline in recent years after earlier rapid growth. Housing values in the area are modest, below regional benchmarks. The local economy centers on physical-labor and service occupations, with work in food service, maintenance, and administrative support. No major named employers emerged from available sources, though agriculture and retail have historically anchored employment.

The school faces measurable academic headwinds. In mathematics, proficiency is weak across all three grades, with sixth graders showing particularly low performance. Seventh grade math is the strongest grade-subject combination at the school, though still below where students typically test at that grade level. Eighth-grade math is very low. In English language arts, performance is more even and somewhat stronger than math. Sixth-grade ELA is modest, seventh-grade ELA reaches a better level, and eighth-grade ELA is moderate. Science proficiency in eighth grade is in the moderate range. Social studies in eighth grade is the school's lowest area of performance. Across all subjects and grades, about one-third of students achieve proficiency or above; about two-thirds reach the lower achievement level of "approaches grade level." Very few students master content in any subject.

When placed against other districts in Webb County, Salvador Garcia Middle's overall proficiency index falls below the midpoint of the county, indicating lower aggregate achievement than at least one peer district in the county comparison set.

The school's academic profile suggests students are entering secondary school with foundational skill gaps, particularly in mathematics. Parents considering this school should understand it as serving a high-poverty, high-need community with test results that indicate substantial instructional and learning challenges. The school is a regular public school with no specialized programming noted in available data. United ISD, the parent district, has recently introduced a district-wide reading intervention program focused on grade-level reading, which may provide additional support to students at this campus. Graduation rate, attendance data, special education enrollment, English learner counts, and information about course offerings or extracurricular programs were not available for this school.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 613%

School 13% · District 41% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 743%

School 43% · District 42% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 51% · ▼ 37 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 36 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 634%

School 34% · District 60% · ▼ 26 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 751%

School 51% · District 56% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 845%

School 45% · District 63% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Science

Grade 837%

School 37% · District 54% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 25% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

This schoolUNITED ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.