VANGUARD MONET

As a micro-enrollment K-5 school in MISSION, Texas, VANGUARD MONET instructs 198 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under VANGUARD ACADEMY. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so VANGUARD MONET sits 62% below that benchmark.

VANGUARD ACADEMY runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 6,814 students. VANGUARD MONET is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VANGUARD MONET logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). Beyond that, the school shows 2% White.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, VANGUARD MONET performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of +12.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Hidalgo County put the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), VANGUARD MONET is one campus in the mix.

BRILLANTE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VANGUARD MONET. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VANGUARD MONET at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. VANGUARD MONET is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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