SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS

SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS, a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in MERCEDES, Texas, one of the schools within SOUTH TEXAS ISD, instructs 781 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS is one of 7 schools operated by SOUTH TEXAS ISD, a district that educates 4,639 students overall.

Demographically, SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS reports that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 7% Asian, 6% White.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS 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 45.9%; SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS posts 66.4%, +20.5 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS is one campus in the mix.

SOUTH TEXAS ISD SCIENCE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 44.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 861 (now 781). Asian enrollment moved from 15% to 7% across the same window.

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