# HARLINGEN H S - SOUTH

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482253006267`
- **School name**: HARLINGEN H S - SOUTH
- **Location**: HARLINGEN, TX 78552
- **Address**: 1701 DIXIELAND RD
- **District**: HARLINGEN CISD (LEAID `4822530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 26.17610, -97.71970
- **Phone**: (956)427-3800
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5658897 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlingen_High_School_South
- **Founded**: 1993

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,019
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 143
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 85

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 74.8% proficient — 131 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 24.4% proficient, 9.9% advanced — 131 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 81.3% proficient — 1,723 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 51.8% proficient, 16.9% advanced — 1,723 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 75.0% proficient — 124 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 14.5% proficient, 5.6% advanced — 124 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 55.7% proficient — 203 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 23.2% proficient, 4.4% advanced — 203 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 79.5% proficient — 620 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 57.4% proficient, 7.6% advanced — 620 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 76.1% proficient — 272 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 30.9% proficient, 5.1% advanced — 272 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.6% proficient — 823 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 49.0% proficient, 6.8% advanced — 823 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 93.1% (cohort of 550)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 242

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.9% (174 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 24.4% (390 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 11
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 0.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.9% — 239 students
- **English Learners**: 9.4% — 150 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 85 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,366
- **Federal share**: $1,039
- **State + local share**: $11,327
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,544
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,885,954
- **Federal share**: 25.6%
- **State share**: 52.6%
- **Local share**: 21.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,190,703

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $54,404
- **Poverty rate**: 27.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,138
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.2 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.43 miles (TEXACO BUILDING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HARLINGEN WATER WORKS SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-11-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JEFFERSON EL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **JUBILEE HARLINGEN** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **MOISES VELA MIDDLE** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **BOWIE EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **CROCKETT EL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)

### graduation rate
- **SAN BENITO H S** — 4.8 mi away, 94% (this school: 93%)
- **LA FERIA EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 6.8 mi away, 97% (this school: 93%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/harlingen-h-s-south-harlingen/workforce

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