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SHARYLAND PIONEER H S
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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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