Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Besteiro Middle, Brownsville, TX
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 558
- Teachers (FTE)
- 45.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.4
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 2.5 lower than the district figure of 14.9. The Texas average across schools is 15.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 6280 Southmost Rd, Brownsville, TX 78521
- Phone
- (956)544-3900
- District
- Brownsville ISD
- County
- Cameron County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 481168003325
School meals
- Free lunch
- 503
- Reduced-price lunch
- 24
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 52794.4% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Brownsville ISD
- Stillman Middle 964 students
- Faulk Middle 885 students
- Garcia Middle 870 students
- Manzano Middle 837 students
- Stell Middle 733 students
- Oliveira Middle 699 students
- Vela Middle 658 students
- Lucio Middle 627 students
- Perkins Middle 480 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Brownsville
- Resaca Middle Los Fresnos CISD
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.