# SOUTH TEXAS ISD PREPARATORY ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483715012250`
- **School name**: SOUTH TEXAS ISD PREPARATORY ACADEMY
- **Location**: EDINBURG, TX 78539
- **Address**: 724 SUGAR RD
- **District**: SOUTH TEXAS ISD (LEAID `4837150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.29725, -98.17852
- **Phone**: (956)381-5522
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7568648 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Preparatory_Academy
- **Founded**: 2008

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 802
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 57
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.4%

## 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
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 97.4% proficient — 309 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 77.7% proficient, 50.5% advanced — 309 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 96.1% proficient — 1,905 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 83.6% proficient, 57.1% advanced — 1,905 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 99.7% proficient — 313 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 93.6% proficient, 68.4% advanced — 313 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 28 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient, 100.0% advanced — 28 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 97.4% proficient — 627 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 96.8% proficient — 155 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 98.2% proficient — 163 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 83.6% proficient, 56.1% advanced — 627 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 90.3% proficient, 59.4% advanced — 155 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 88.3% proficient, 63.8% advanced — 163 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 96.7% proficient — 637 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 96.5% proficient — 284 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.1% (44 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 1.9% (14 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 79.6%
- **Black/African American**: 13.9%
- **Asian**: 1.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 2.6% — 19 students
- **English Learners**: 10.0% — 73 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,849,682
- **Federal share**: 12.5%
- **State share**: 49.4%
- **Local share**: 38.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,563,867

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $59,327
- **Poverty rate**: 27.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.7%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $973
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.0 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.61 miles (FORMER HOSPITAL 512 S NEBRASKA AVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NORTH ALAMO WSC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 20
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1134 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/south-texas-isd-preparatory-academy-edinburg/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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