# RUBEN HINOJOSA EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483025009298`
- **School name**: RUBEN HINOJOSA EL
- **Location**: MERCEDES, TX 78570
- **Address**: 500 S RIO RICO RD
- **District**: MERCEDES ISD (LEAID `4830250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.14649, -97.89945
- **Phone**: (956)512-2227

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 468
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 97

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 75.2% proficient — 532 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 44.4% proficient, 15.6% advanced — 532 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.2% proficient — 225 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 93.8% proficient — 81 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 76.5% proficient — 68 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 63.2% proficient — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 50.7% proficient, 12.4% advanced — 225 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 63.0% proficient, 13.6% advanced — 81 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 50.0% proficient, 14.7% advanced — 68 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 38.2% proficient, 9.2% advanced — 76 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 72.6% proficient — 226 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 84.0% proficient — 81 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 61.8% proficient — 68 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 70.1% proficient — 77 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 44.2% proficient, 22.6% advanced — 226 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 59.3% proficient, 32.1% advanced — 81 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.6% (59 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 4.5% (22 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**: 98.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.1% — 59 students
- **English Learners**: 25.1% — 122 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,713
- **Federal share**: $1,645
- **State + local share**: $9,068
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 636
### 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)**: 11.8 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.95 miles (H H FOODS)

### 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**: 18.5 miles

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