# VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168012029`
- **School name**: VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78520
- **Address**: 1000 CHARGER LN
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 25.96252, -97.57188
- **Phone**: (956)574-5600
- **Wikidata QID**: Q28230198 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Memorial_Early_College_High_School
- **Founded**: 2010

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,216
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 133
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 64.0%

## 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: B
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 92

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 92.2% proficient — 320 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 62.8% proficient, 25.0% advanced — 320 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 89.4% proficient — 2,819 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 66.8% proficient, 20.8% advanced — 2,819 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 91.9% proficient — 530 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 60.6% proficient, 13.8% advanced — 530 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 85.4% proficient — 639 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 68.1% proficient, 18.2% advanced — 639 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 88.1% proficient — 579 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 73.1% proficient, 16.1% advanced — 579 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 84.9% proficient — 568 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 50.9% proficient, 15.0% advanced — 568 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 86.7% proficient — 1,218 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 70.4% proficient, 17.2% advanced — 1,218 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 99.4% (cohort of 488)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 218

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (56 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.1% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.0% (253 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**: 97.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.6% — 220 students
- **English Learners**: 10.6% — 244 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 79 students
- **Autism**: 43 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,217,228
- **Federal share**: 30.3%
- **State share**: 55.9%
- **Local share**: 13.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,012,718

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,327
- **Poverty rate**: 19.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.0%
- **Unemployment**: 9.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,527
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 33.6 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.38 miles (AMIGO LAND RAILYARD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BROWNSVILLE PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2851 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **VILLA NUEVA EL** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.13%)
- **STILLMAN MIDDLE** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.13%)
- **YTURRIA EL** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.13%)
- **MANZANO MIDDLE** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.13%)
- **KELLER EL** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.13%)

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