High · Texas
South Texas ISD Science Academy
South Texas ISD Science Academy, a public high school in Mercedes, Texas: grades 9–12, 840 students, 12.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of South Texas 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
- 840
- Teachers (FTE)
- 65.1
- Students per teacher
- 12.9
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 57% of high schools in Texas
Median 13.8 · 1,941 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 61% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 69% of high schools in Texas
Median 365 · 2,123 schools compared
Larger than 70% 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 · Regular
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- South Texas ISD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with South Texas ISD.
Location
- Address
- 900 Med High Dr, Mercedes, TX 78570
- Phone
- (956)565-4620
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 781 | 14.5 | |
South Texas ISD Virtual AcademyFully virtual | 6–12 | 212 | 13.7 |
South Palm Gardens H SAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 72 | 14.8 |
Mercedes Early College AcademyAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 355 | 16.0 |
Triumph Public High Schools-MercedesCharterAlternative | 9–12 | 109 | 22.1 |
Weslaco East H SFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,066 | 16.3 |
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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