# PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483714013496`
- **School name**: PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S
- **Location**: RIO GRANDE CITY, TX 78582
- **Address**: 144 FM 3167
- **District**: RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD (LEAID `4837140`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 26.39054, -98.85167
- **Phone**: (956)370-4254

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 430
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: B
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 93

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 86.2% proficient — 65 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 50.8% proficient, 15.4% advanced — 65 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 93.6% proficient — 559 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 71.4% proficient, 19.1% advanced — 559 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 94.2% proficient — 104 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 68.3% proficient, 10.6% advanced — 104 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 91.5% proficient — 117 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 73.5% proficient, 24.8% advanced — 117 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 97.6% proficient — 127 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 79.5% proficient, 12.6% advanced — 127 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 83.3% proficient — 90 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 45.6% proficient, 11.1% advanced — 90 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 94.7% proficient — 244 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 76.6% proficient, 18.4% advanced — 244 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 99.2% (cohort of 125)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 22

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.1% (26 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 99.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.6% — 15 students
- **English Learners**: 57.4% — 237 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,752
- **Federal share**: $359
- **State + local share**: $8,392
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 503
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,997,003
- **Federal share**: 37.4%
- **State share**: 51.1%
- **Local share**: 11.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,238,344

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $33,143
- **Poverty rate**: 38.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.6%
- **Unemployment**: 24.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $627
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 51.2 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.42 miles (FORDYCE TRACT 1)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: RIO WSC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-11-01

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