SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY

Set in MISSION, Texas, SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY is a compact four-year high school, overseen by SHARYLAND ISD. It enrolls 481 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 40% leaner than the state mean of about 796.

SHARYLAND ISD runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 9,844 students. SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 4% White. That composition is broadly in line with Hidalgo County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY reports 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.0%; SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY posts 81.3%, +36.2 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Hidalgo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is SHARYLAND H S, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 23%: 392 students in 2018 compared to 481 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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