Summary
Moreno J H in Beeville, TX, serves 682 students in grades 6-8 within the Beeville Independent School District (Isd), a district ranked in the bottom 20% of Texas school districts, with over 81% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. This middle school has consistently struggled academically, ranking in the 23rd percentile statewide for the 2025-2026 school year, a pattern of low performance that has persisted for over a decade.
The most striking contrast is with Skidmore-Tynan J H, located just 11 miles away in the Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District (Isd), which ranks in the 54th percentile (3 stars). The academic gap is especially wide in mathematics: only 3.59% of Moreno 7th graders were proficient in math, compared to 18.42% at Skidmore-Tynan and 29.41% statewide. In 8th-grade math, the gap is even starker, with 33.05% proficiency at Moreno versus 69.84% at Skidmore-Tynan. Reading scores also lag, though less dramatically, with 44.81% of Moreno 6th graders proficient versus 49.28% at Skidmore-Tynan. However, there is a notable exception: Moreno excels in Algebra I acceleration, with 96.15% of students passing the End-of-Course exam, far exceeding the state average of 54.03%.
Despite these challenges, Moreno J H has bright spots. It ranks in the 79th percentile for serving special education students, a remarkable achievement, and maintains a very low dropout rate of 0.2%, well below the district average. The school also shows improvement in supporting English Language Learners, moving from the 22nd to the 49th percentile in recent years. These successes, combined with the Algebra I anomaly, suggest that while the general math curriculum needs a comprehensive overhaul, the school has effective strategies for specific student groups that could be leveraged to benefit the entire student body.
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