High · Texas
Mercedes Early College Academy
AlternativeFree meals for allMercedes Early College Academy, a public high school in Mercedes, Texas: grades 9–12, 355 students, 16.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mercedes ISD.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 355
- Teachers (FTE)
- 22.2
- Students per teacher
- 16.0
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 70% of high schools in Texas
Median 13.8 · 1,941 schools compared
More students per teacher than 61% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 51% of high schools in Texas
Median 365 · 2,123 schools compared
Smaller than 55% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Mercedes ISD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mercedes ISD.
Location
- Address
- 950 W 6TH St, Mercedes, TX 78570
- Phone
- (956)514-5180
- City or town
- Mercedes
- County
- Hidalgo County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Triumph Public High Schools-MercedesCharterAlternative | 9–12 | 109 | 22.1 |
Mercedes H SFree meals for all | 9–12 | 903 | 14.8 |
| 9–12 | 781 | 14.5 | |
| 9–12 | 840 | 12.9 | |
South Texas ISD Virtual AcademyFully virtual | 6–12 | 212 | 13.7 |
Mercedes Academic AcademyAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 100 | 10.8 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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