# LOPEZ EARLY COLLEGE H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168003324`
- **School name**: LOPEZ EARLY COLLEGE H S
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78521
- **Address**: 3205 S DAKOTA AVE
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 25.88248, -97.42246
- **Phone**: (956)982-7400
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6676181 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopez_Early_College_High_School
- **Founded**: 1996

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,739
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 125
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 87

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 74.6% proficient — 386 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 31.3% proficient, 7.8% advanced — 386 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.5% proficient — 2,726 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 46.8% proficient, 12.1% advanced — 2,726 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 88.4% proficient — 601 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 51.4% proficient, 14.1% advanced — 601 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 63.7% proficient — 593 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 38.4% proficient, 3.5% advanced — 593 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 71.4% proficient — 618 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 49.2% proficient, 5.8% advanced — 618 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 75.2% proficient — 479 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 29.9% proficient, 6.3% advanced — 479 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 67.6% proficient — 1,211 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 43.9% proficient, 4.7% advanced — 1,211 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 88.5% (cohort of 485)
- **2018**: 87.0% (cohort of 462)
- **2017**: 95.0% (cohort of 497)
- **2016**: 93.0% (cohort of 443)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 186

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.6% (339 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (34 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.4% (309 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 99.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.0% — 283 students
- **English Learners**: 28.8% — 510 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 134 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 64 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 30 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,517
- **Federal share**: $834
- **State + local share**: $10,683
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,013
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,217,228
- **Federal share**: 30.3%
- **State share**: 55.9%
- **Local share**: 13.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,012,718

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $34,171
- **Poverty rate**: 29.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $912
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 44.2 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.12 miles (GONZALEZ PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BROWNSVILLE PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2851 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **IDEA FRONTIER ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **IDEA FRONTIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **BESTEIRO MIDDLE** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **PALM GROVE EL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **GARZA EL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)

### graduation rate
- **PORTER EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 3.7 mi away, 92% (this school: 85%)
- **RIVERA EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 4.0 mi away, 94% (this school: 85%)
- **HANNA EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 5.2 mi away, 93% (this school: 85%)
- **PACE EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 7.3 mi away, 97% (this school: 85%)
- **VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 10.8 mi away, 98% (this school: 85%)

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

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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