JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S

JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S is a four-year high school of sizable scale in MISSION, Texas, one of the schools within LA JOYA ISD, serveing 1,952 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 145% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S is one of 36 schools operated by LA JOYA ISD, a district that educates 22,942 students overall.

Demographically, JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). By comparison, Hidalgo County as a whole is about 92% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 142 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 98% of students at JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hidalgo County put median household income runs about $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

JUAN SEGUIN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.3%.

JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JUAREZ-LINCOLN H S has edged down 23%, going from 2,528 students in 2018 to 1,952 in 2025.

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