# TRIUMPH PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS-MERCEDES

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480013308280`
- **School name**: TRIUMPH PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS-MERCEDES
- **Location**: MERCEDES, TX 78570
- **Address**: 103 E 2ND ST
- **District**: TRIUMPH PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS-RIO GRANDE VALLEY (LEAID `4800133`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 26.15028, -97.91090
- **Phone**: (956)565-5417

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 109
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 4
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.2:1

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 96

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 80.0% proficient — 25 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 28.0% proficient, 4.0% advanced — 25 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 63.0% proficient — 184 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 22.3% proficient, 1.6% advanced — 184 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 62.1% proficient — 29 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 13.8% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 29 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 48.5% proficient — 33 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 18.2% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 33 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 46.8% proficient — 47 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 23.4% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 47 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 74.1% proficient — 27 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 25.9% proficient, 3.7% advanced — 27 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 47.5% proficient — 80 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 21.2% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 80 tested
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 100.0% (cohort of 20)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.9% (61 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 30.7% (31 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**: 100.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.8% — 20 students
- **English Learners**: 20.8% — 21 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,921,649
- **Federal share**: 28.5%
- **State share**: 71.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,086,598

## 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)**: 11.2 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.24 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**: 17.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **MERCEDES H S** — 0.8 mi away, 92% (this school: 74.5%)
- **MERCEDES ACADEMIC ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 84.5% (this school: 74.5%)
- **SOUTH PALM GARDENS H S** — 2.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 74.5%)
- **WESLACO EAST H S** — 3.7 mi away, 89% (this school: 74.5%)
- **PROGRESO H S** — 4.6 mi away, 87% (this school: 74.5%)

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