# RIVERA EARLY COLLEGE H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168006517`
- **School name**: RIVERA EARLY COLLEGE H S
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78521
- **Address**: 6955 FM 802
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 25.93992, -97.41604
- **Phone**: (956)831-8700
- **Wikidata QID**: Q17034463 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rivera_Early_College_High_School
- **Founded**: 1988

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,150
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 136
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.4%

## 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: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 88

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 79.0% proficient — 534 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 31.8% proficient, 12.9% advanced — 534 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.7% proficient — 3,349 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 45.2% proficient, 11.3% advanced — 3,349 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 86.4% proficient — 616 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 37.7% proficient, 7.0% advanced — 616 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 67.0% proficient — 789 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 42.2% proficient, 6.7% advanced — 789 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 72.4% proficient — 739 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 53.3% proficient, 6.9% advanced — 739 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 79.4% proficient — 685 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 30.8% proficient, 10.4% advanced — 685 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 69.6% proficient — 1,528 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.6% proficient, 6.8% advanced — 1,528 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 94.5% (cohort of 547)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 111

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.7% (298 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (35 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.5% (382 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**: 99.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 323 students
- **English Learners**: 23.8% — 520 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 136 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 54 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 29 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,183
- **Federal share**: $836
- **State + local share**: $9,347
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,347
### 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**: $50,588
- **Poverty rate**: 18.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.0%
- **Unemployment**: 8.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $979
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 43.3 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.15 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**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **GARCIA MIDDLE** — 1.0 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 0.87%)
- **LUCIO MIDDLE** — 1.4 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 0.87%)
- **EL JARDIN EL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.87%)
- **PENA EL** — 1.7 mi away, 0.42% (this school: 0.87%)
- **PERKINS MIDDLE** — 1.9 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 0.87%)

### graduation rate
- **PACE EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 6.8 mi away, 97% (this school: 94%)
- **VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 9.8 mi away, 98% (this school: 94%)

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