# MERCEDES EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483025012441`
- **School name**: MERCEDES EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY
- **Location**: MERCEDES, TX 78570
- **Address**: 950 W 6TH ST
- **District**: MERCEDES ISD (LEAID `4830250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 26.14630, -97.91993
- **Phone**: (956)514-5180

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 355
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 89

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 88.6% proficient — 70 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 34.3% proficient, 7.1% advanced — 70 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 93.9% proficient — 489 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 63.0% proficient, 12.3% advanced — 489 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 96.2% proficient — 106 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 62.3% proficient, 13.2% advanced — 106 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 91.3% proficient — 92 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 65.2% proficient, 7.6% advanced — 92 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 93.8% proficient — 112 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 77.7% proficient, 10.7% advanced — 112 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 89.8% proficient — 98 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 34.7% proficient, 5.1% advanced — 98 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 92.6% proficient — 204 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 72.1% proficient, 9.3% advanced — 204 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 100.0% (cohort of 106)
- **2018**: 97.0% (cohort of 76)
- **2017**: 97.0% (cohort of 103)
- **2016**: 95.0% (cohort of 60)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 104

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.0% (25 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 1.1% (4 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**: 99.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.1% — 4 students
- **English Learners**: 8.0% — 28 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,716
- **Federal share**: $1,055
- **State + local share**: $8,661
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 430
### 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**: $46,635
- **Poverty rate**: 22.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,028
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.6 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.41 miles (CERMENIO JOE S TIRE SERVICE)

### 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**: 17.4 miles

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