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SHARYLAND PIONEER H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 37 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SHARYLAND PIONEER H S
Located at 6 1/2 MILE N SHARY RD, in MISSION, Texas, SHARYLAND PIONEER H S is a heavily attended 9-12 campus that teaches 1,511 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by SHARYLAND ISD. That puts it 90% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within SHARYLAND ISD, which oversees 13 schools and 9,844 students, SHARYLAND PIONEER H S is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SHARYLAND PIONEER H S reports that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 7% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, SHARYLAND PIONEER H S shows 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, SHARYLAND PIONEER H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of +13.9 points.
In the area at large, Hidalgo County reports that 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%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), SHARYLAND PIONEER H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: JESSIE L JENSEN EL, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SHARYLAND PIONEER H S comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.
SHARYLAND PIONEER H S operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. SHARYLAND PIONEER H S's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,564 (now 1,511).
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