EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 97 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 50 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S
EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S, a modestly sized high school in EDINBURG, Texas, operated by EDINBURG CISD, enrolls 466 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 41% below typical.
Within EDINBURG CISD, which oversees 44 schools and 33,343 students, EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 2% Asian.
In terms of school funding signals, EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 43.9%; this one delivers 94.1%, a residual of +50.2 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Hidalgo County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S is one.
FRANCISCO BARRIENTES MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S. On composite proficiency, EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.
EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S operates from an inner-city location.
Inside the community feed, the feed for EDINBURG COLLEGIATE H S typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Hidalgo County at a glance
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