# SOUTH TEXAS ISD SCIENCE ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483715000429`
- **School name**: SOUTH TEXAS ISD SCIENCE ACADEMY
- **Location**: MERCEDES, TX 78570
- **Address**: 900 MED HIGH DR
- **District**: SOUTH TEXAS ISD (LEAID `4837150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 26.15709, -97.93935
- **Phone**: (956)565-4620

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 840
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 65
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.8%

## 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: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 96

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 81.8% proficient — 33 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 51.5% proficient, 39.4% advanced — 33 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 96.7% proficient — 926 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 85.5% proficient, 40.8% advanced — 926 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.0% proficient — 49 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 77.6% proficient, 42.9% advanced — 49 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 96.4% proficient — 220 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 89.1% proficient, 38.6% advanced — 220 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 97.2% proficient — 177 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 92.1% proficient, 29.4% advanced — 177 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 94.9% proficient — 176 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 79.5% proficient, 28.4% advanced — 176 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 96.7% proficient — 397 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 90.4% proficient, 34.5% advanced — 397 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 100.0% (cohort of 152)
- **2018**: 97.0% (cohort of 160)
- **2017**: 97.0% (cohort of 151)
- **2016**: 97.0% (cohort of 181)
- **2015**: 97.0% (cohort of 178)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 162

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.0% (143 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.0% (68 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 7
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 77.6%
- **Black/African American**: 12.6%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.9% — 33 students
- **English Learners**: 2.4% — 20 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## 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**: $28,912
- **Poverty rate**: 47.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.5%
- **Unemployment**: 13.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $718
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 34.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.6 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.60 miles (CERMENIO JOE S TIRE SERVICE)

### 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**: 16.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SOUTH TEXAS ISD HEALTH PROFESSIONS** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)
- **SOUTH PALM GARDENS H S** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)
- **JOHN F KENNEDY EL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)
- **MERCEDES EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)
- **TAYLOR EL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)

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