# SOUTH TEXAS ISD WORLD SCHOLARS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483715004181`
- **School name**: SOUTH TEXAS ISD WORLD SCHOLARS
- **Location**: EDINBURG, TX 78539
- **Address**: 510 S SUGAR RD
- **District**: SOUTH TEXAS ISD (LEAID `4837150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 26.29881, -98.17820
- **Phone**: (956)383-1684
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7568635 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Business,_Education_%26_Technology_Academy
- **Founded**: 2003

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 403
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.3%

## 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: 97

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 92.3% proficient — 39 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 71.8% proficient, 43.6% advanced — 39 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 92.8% proficient — 598 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 70.4% proficient, 29.6% advanced — 598 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.1% proficient — 54 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 77.8% proficient, 24.1% advanced — 54 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 95.5% proficient — 112 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 84.8% proficient, 37.5% advanced — 112 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 90.9% proficient — 121 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 80.2% proficient, 23.1% advanced — 121 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 86.3% proficient — 124 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 50.0% proficient, 16.1% advanced — 124 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 93.1% proficient — 233 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 82.4% proficient, 30.0% advanced — 233 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 99.3% (cohort of 144)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 239

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.9% (83 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.7% (67 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.2%
- **Black/African American**: 2.1%
- **Asian**: 1.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.0% — 32 students
- **English Learners**: 12.5% — 57 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,469
- **Federal share**: $944
- **State + local share**: $13,525
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 598
### 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)**: 14.1 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.71 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**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SOUTH TEXAS ISD PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)
- **LEE EL** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)
- **DE LA VINA EL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)
- **SOUTH MIDDLE** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)
- **JEFFERSON ELEM** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.44%)

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