# UNITED SOUTH H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `484365006922`
- **School name**: UNITED SOUTH H S
- **Location**: LAREDO, TX 78046
- **Address**: 4001 AVE LOS PRESIDENTES
- **District**: UNITED ISD (LEAID `4843650`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.47750, -99.45039
- **Phone**: (956)473-5400
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7889168 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_South_High_School
- **Founded**: 1990

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,252
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 193
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: B
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 88

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 89.1% proficient — 741 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 54.7% proficient, 23.8% advanced — 741 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 84.4% proficient — 4,630 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 54.8% proficient, 14.2% advanced — 4,630 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 86.8% proficient — 944 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 48.9% proficient, 14.1% advanced — 944 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 76.6% proficient — 1,056 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 53.6% proficient, 8.2% advanced — 1,056 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 77.7% proficient — 976 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 55.5% proficient, 7.8% advanced — 976 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 89.4% proficient — 895 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 53.4% proficient, 19.9% advanced — 895 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.1% proficient — 2,032 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 54.5% proficient, 8.0% advanced — 2,032 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 95.1% (cohort of 771)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 483

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.5% (375 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 24.4% (795 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**: 99.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 0.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.0% — 358 students
- **English Learners**: 24.1% — 784 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 109 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 78 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,805
- **Federal share**: $609
- **State + local share**: $9,196
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 3,213
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,282,887
- **Federal share**: 25.7%
- **State share**: 35.9%
- **Local share**: 38.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,983,798

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,396
- **Poverty rate**: 5.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,563
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 121.1 miles (BRINE SERVICE COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.37 miles (FORMER DICKINSON PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF LAREDO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 29
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-15

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.4271 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **UNITED SOUTH MIDDLE** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.34%)
- **RUIZ EL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 0.34%)
- **SALINAS EL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.34%)
- **BONNIE L GARCIA EL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.34%)
- **SANTO NINO EL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.34%)

### graduation rate
- **DR LEO CIGARROA H S** — 1.2 mi away, 96% (this school: 95%)
- **LYNDON B JOHNSON** — 3.3 mi away, 96% (this school: 95%)
- **NIXON H S** — 3.7 mi away, 97% (this school: 95%)
- **JOHN B ALEXANDER H S** — 7.2 mi away, 98% (this school: 95%)
- **UNITED H S** — 10.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 95%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/united-south-h-s-laredo/workforce

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