Summary:
In zip code 76093, there is one middle school, Rio Vista Middle, serving grades 6 through 8 in the small, rural community of Rio Vista, Texas, as part of the Rio Vista Independent School District (Isd).
Rio Vista Middle is a school of stark contrasts, with 229 students and a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.9:1. The school shows extreme highs and lows in its STAAR test scores. For the 2025-2026 school year, 8th graders excelled in Mathematics, with 64.36% proficient—well above the state average of 47.24%—and also performed strongly in 8th-grade Science the prior year. However, this same grade level saw a catastrophic drop in Social Studies, plummeting from 31.71% proficiency in 2024-2025 to just 12% in 2025-2026, which is less than half the state average. Meanwhile, 6th-grade Math proficiency was only 20.93%, highlighting a major inconsistency across subjects and grade levels.
The school’s overall ranking reflects this volatility, moving from the 50th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 60th percentile in 2024-2025, then dropping back to the 49th percentile (2-star rating) in 2025-2026. With 62.01% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, the school serves a majority low-income population, yet maintains a 0.0% dropout rate. The key takeaway for parents is that Rio Vista Middle offers pockets of exceptional teaching—particularly in 8th-grade Math and Science—but struggles with inconsistent performance across other areas, especially 6th-grade Math and 8th-grade Social Studies, which requires urgent attention from the district.
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