# MERCEDES ACADEMIC ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483025006996`
- **School name**: MERCEDES ACADEMIC ACADEMY
- **Location**: MERCEDES, TX 78570
- **Address**: 720 S MILE 1 E
- **District**: MERCEDES ISD (LEAID `4830250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 26.14825, -97.89491
- **Phone**: (956)514-5076

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 100
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 9
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 91
  - support_label: Comprehensive Progress

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 31.4% proficient — 35 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 0.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 35 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 41.5% proficient — 159 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 7.5% proficient, 0.6% advanced — 159 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 42.3% proficient — 26 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 7.7% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 26 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 22.6% proficient — 31 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 0.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 31 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 39.5% proficient — 38 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 18.4% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 38 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 31.4% proficient — 35 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 0.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 35 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 31.9% proficient — 69 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 10.1% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 69 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 42.3% proficient — 26 tested
- **Science % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 7.7% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 26 tested
- **Social Studies % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 75.9% proficient — 29 tested
- **Social Studies % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 10.3% proficient, 3.4% advanced — 29 tested
- **Student Achievement (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 77.6% (cohort of 58)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 33.3% (18 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.9% (22 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**: 100.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 99.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.0% — 6 students
- **English Learners**: 7.4% — 11 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,491
- **Federal share**: $2,223
- **State + local share**: $12,268
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 77
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,499,547
- **Federal share**: 32.1%
- **State share**: 54.9%
- **Local share**: 13.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,081,711

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $27,813
- **Poverty rate**: 36.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $554
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.1 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.89 miles (H H FOODS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCEDES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-30

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1134 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **MERCEDES H S** — 1.0 mi away, 92% (this school: 84.5%)
- **SOUTH PALM GARDENS H S** — 3.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 84.5%)
- **LA FERIA EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 4.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 84.5%)
- **WESLACO EAST H S** — 4.7 mi away, 89% (this school: 84.5%)
- **PROGRESO H S** — 5.2 mi away, 87% (this school: 84.5%)

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