PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 34 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% 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 55 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Set in SAN JUAN, Texas, PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS is a close-knit senior high, overseen by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD. It hosts 340 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 57% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 29,749 students. PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS reports that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.
After controlling for student poverty, PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS 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 30.7%; this one delivers 85.6%, a residual of +54.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS is one.
PSJA EARLY COLLEGE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PSJA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 51.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
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