# PORTER EARLY COLLEGE H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168000642`
- **School name**: PORTER EARLY COLLEGE H S
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78521
- **Address**: 3500 INTERNATIONAL BLVD
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 25.91262, -97.47185
- **Phone**: (956)548-7800
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5566450 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Porter_Early_College_High_School
- **Founded**: 1969

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,543
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 111
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 88

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 91.1% proficient — 404 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 65.1% proficient, 34.9% advanced — 404 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.0% proficient — 2,710 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.6% proficient, 14.6% advanced — 2,710 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 84.8% proficient — 475 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 43.8% proficient, 11.6% advanced — 475 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 60.2% proficient — 610 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 37.2% proficient, 5.4% advanced — 610 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 65.8% proficient — 622 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 42.9% proficient, 4.5% advanced — 622 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 88.7% proficient — 521 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 54.9% proficient, 27.1% advanced — 521 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 63.0% proficient — 1,232 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 40.1% proficient, 5.0% advanced — 1,232 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 94.8% (cohort of 499)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 122

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.6% (168 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.5% (43 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 27.0% (455 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 13
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 99.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.0% — 253 students
- **English Learners**: 42.5% — 715 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 142 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 49 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,023
- **Federal share**: $1,296
- **State + local share**: $9,726
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,995
### 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**: $24,926
- **Poverty rate**: 53.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 1.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $821
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 40.6 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.78 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**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CROMACK EL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.59%)
- **OLIVEIRA MIDDLE** — 1.0 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 0.59%)
- **DEL CASTILLO EL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.59%)
- **HANNA EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 1.8 mi away, 0.18% (this school: 0.59%)
- **BROWNSVILLE EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.59%)

### graduation rate
- **HANNA EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 1.8 mi away, 93% (this school: 92%)
- **PACE EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 3.6 mi away, 97% (this school: 92%)
- **RIVERA EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 4.0 mi away, 94% (this school: 92%)
- **VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 7.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 92%)
- **LOS FRESNOS H S** — 11.8 mi away, 93% (this school: 92%)

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