# PACE EARLY COLLEGE H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168000643`
- **School name**: PACE EARLY COLLEGE H S
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78520
- **Address**: 314 W LOS EBANOS BLVD
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 25.93501, -97.52492
- **Phone**: (956)548-7700
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6140859 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pace_Early_College_High_School
- **Founded**: 1996

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,621
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 104
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.0%

## 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: B
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 89

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 85.4% proficient — 261 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 62.5% proficient, 32.6% advanced — 261 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 80.2% proficient — 2,488 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 50.9% proficient, 14.3% advanced — 2,488 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 86.1% proficient — 497 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 47.9% proficient, 11.1% advanced — 497 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 74.0% proficient — 549 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 49.7% proficient, 9.8% advanced — 549 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 70.1% proficient — 572 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 45.5% proficient, 6.3% advanced — 572 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 79.3% proficient — 421 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 45.8% proficient, 20.4% advanced — 421 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 72.0% proficient — 1,121 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.5% proficient, 8.0% advanced — 1,121 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 98.1% (cohort of 535)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 173

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.6% (115 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.9% (356 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**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.4% — 267 students
- **English Learners**: 28.8% — 469 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 118 students
- **Autism**: 35 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 33 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 29 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 25 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,718
- **Federal share**: $849
- **State + local share**: $9,868
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,085
### 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**: $36,657
- **Poverty rate**: 19.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $742
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 37.0 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.15 miles (COURTHOUSE 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**: 2.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **GARDEN PARK EL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.55%)
- **JUBILEE LIVING WAY** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.55%)
- **BRYSS ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.55%)
- **TRIUMPH PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS-BROWNSVILLE** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.55%)
- **ORTIZ EL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.55%)

### graduation rate
- **VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 3.5 mi away, 98% (this school: 97%)

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