Summary:
There is one middle school, Rio Vista Middle, serving grades 6 through 8 in the Rio Vista Independent School District (Isd), which is ranked 416th out of 951 districts in Texas and serves a community where 62% of students are economically disadvantaged.
Rio Vista Middle shows a fascinating pattern of strengths and weaknesses. The school's standout performance is in 8th-grade mathematics, where 64.36% of students are proficient—dramatically outperforming the state average of 47.24%. Similarly, 8th-grade science is a strong point, with 59.76% proficiency versus the state's 46.25%. However, the school struggles significantly in 8th-grade social studies, where only 12% of students were proficient in 2025-2026, a catastrophic drop from 31.71% the previous year and well below the state average of 31.69%. Math scores are also volatile: while 8th graders excel, only 20.93% of 6th graders and 29.09% of 7th graders were proficient in math in 2025-2026, creating a 43-point gap within the same subject.
The school's state ranking has been unstable, jumping from the 50th percentile (2 stars) in 2023-2024 to the 60th percentile (3 stars) in 2024-2025, then falling back to the 49th percentile (2 stars) in 2025-2026. This "yo-yo" effect suggests performance is heavily influenced by specific cohorts or subjects each year. On the positive side, the school maintains a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.9, a 0.0% dropout rate, and spends $9,916 per student. The "8th-grade bounce" in reading and math indicates either strong instruction at that grade level or a particularly strong cohort, but the dramatic decline in social studies and the inconsistency in math across grades are clear areas for the school to investigate and address.
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