PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S

Located at 144 FM 3167, in RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas, PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S is a tight-knit four-year high school that teaches 430 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S sits 46% below that benchmark.

RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 9,316 students. PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S reports that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Starr County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 30.8%; actual is 69.1%, +38.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Starr County indicate median household earnings sit near $37,639, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 31%. In all, Starr County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,900 students), of which PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S is one.

The closest other public school is RINGGOLD MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.2%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S's enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 477 (now 430).

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