# SOUTH TEXAS ISD RISING SCHOLARS ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483715013137`
- **School name**: SOUTH TEXAS ISD RISING SCHOLARS ACADEMY
- **Location**: SAN BENITO, TX 78586
- **Address**: 151 S HELEN MOORE RD
- **District**: SOUTH TEXAS ISD (LEAID `4837150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.15553, -97.66129
- **Phone**: (956)399-4358

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 781
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 57.0%

## 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: 95

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 99.2% proficient — 245 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 82.9% proficient, 49.0% advanced — 245 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 95.7% proficient — 1,689 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 78.9% proficient, 45.2% advanced — 1,689 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.8% proficient — 247 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 88.3% proficient, 41.7% advanced — 247 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 — 27 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient, 74.1% advanced — 27 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 96.0% proficient — 593 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 93.6% proficient — 171 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 93.8% proficient — 177 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 77.2% proficient, 43.3% advanced — 593 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 78.4% proficient, 42.1% advanced — 171 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 68.4% proficient, 36.7% advanced — 177 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 96.6% proficient — 594 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 97.8% proficient — 224 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (4 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 0.6% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 86.7%
- **Black/African American**: 3.7%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 2.0% — 14 students
- **English Learners**: 7.2% — 49 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 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**: $43,471
- **Poverty rate**: 25.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 3.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,081
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.5 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.36 miles (TEXACO BUILDING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SAN BENITO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-04-01

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