# MERCEDES H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483025003388`
- **School name**: MERCEDES H S
- **Location**: MERCEDES, TX 78570
- **Address**: 1200 S FLORIDA
- **District**: MERCEDES ISD (LEAID `4830250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 8–12
- **Coordinates**: 26.13894, -97.90770
- **Phone**: (956)514-2100
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6818192 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 903
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 60
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: C
  - academic_growth: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 74

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 58.5% proficient — 381 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 10.8% proficient, 2.1% advanced — 381 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.0% proficient — 1,740 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 25.9% proficient, 3.9% advanced — 1,740 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 81.0% proficient — 331 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 31.4% proficient, 3.6% advanced — 331 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 50.4% proficient — 415 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 21.7% proficient, 1.4% advanced — 415 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 60.1% proficient — 358 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 27.4% proficient, 1.1% advanced — 358 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 60.6% proficient — 406 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 12.3% proficient, 2.0% advanced — 406 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 54.9% proficient — 773 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 24.3% proficient, 1.3% advanced — 773 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 57.0% proficient
- **School Progress (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 92.2% (cohort of 205)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 39

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.6% (281 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 39.8% (356 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 9
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 99.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.3% — 119 students
- **English Learners**: 26.4% — 236 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 41 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,795
- **Federal share**: $1,239
- **State + local share**: $12,556
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,022
### 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)**: 11.2 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.88 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**: 18.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **LA FERIA EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 5.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 92%)
- **DONNA H S** — 8.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 92%)
- **EDCOUCH-ELSA H S** — 11.8 mi away, 93% (this school: 92%)
- **HARLINGEN H S - SOUTH** — 11.9 mi away, 93% (this school: 92%)
- **DONNA NORTH H S** — 12.1 mi away, 95% (this school: 92%)

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