Making The Grade: The Best High Schools In The Rio Grande Valley - 2022

Earlier this Summer, the Texas Education Agency released its annual A-F Accountability Report for the 2021-2022 school year, measuring the performances of campuses and their respective districts all across the state using a variety of different standardized education metrics.

As we’ve done previously, your friends at The Bench Wire have combed through the data and we’ll be presenting our findings in a series, Making The Grade, ranking some of the best, and worst, in education that the Rio Grande Valley has to offer.

Every school campus and district is assessed, with scores ranging from 0-100, on the following:

Student Achievement – Combines STAAR performance, College-Career-Military readiness, and Graduation Rate into one tangible metric.
Academic Growth – Credit awarded for students that improve year over year on STAAR examinations.
Relative Performance – Credit awarded based on performance relative to districts or campuses with a similar percentage of economically disadvantaged students.
School Progress – Combines both Academic Growth and Relative Performance into one tangible metric.
Closing The Gaps – A tangible score that uses disaggregated data to demonstrate differentials among racial/ethnic groups, socioeconomic backgrounds, and other factors against other metrics such as Academic Achievement, Growth or Graduation, and Student Success.
Overall Score – An overall, tangible score, calculated using a combination of all 5 assessments.

In this data segment, alternative education districts, which are evaluated by TEA’s alternative education accountability provisions, have been removed from these results.

Rio Grande Valley School Districts with the Best Overall Scores

Rank	High School	School District	Overall Score
1	ACHIEVE EARLY COLLEGE H S	MCALLEN ISD	99
2	BROWNSVILLE EARLY COLLEGE H S	BROWNSVILLE ISD	98
2	SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY	SHARYLAND ISD	98
4	HARLINGEN SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS	HARLINGEN CISD	97
4	SOUTH TEXAS ISD WORLD SCHOLARS	SOUTH TEXAS ISD	97
4	MISSION COLLEGIATE H S	MISSION CISD	97
4	THELMA ROSA SALINAS STEM EARLY COLLEGE H S	LA JOYA ISD	97
8	SOUTH TEXAS ISD SCIENCE ACADEMY	SOUTH TEXAS ISD	96
9	SAN PERLITA H S	SAN PERLITA ISD	95
10	HARLINGEN COLLEGIATE H S	HARLINGEN CISD	93
10	SHARYLAND H S	SHARYLAND ISD	93
10	JIMMY CARTER EARLY COLLEGE H S	LA JOYA ISD	93
10	PREPARATORY FOR EARLY COLLEGE H S	RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD	93
14	VETERANS MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S	BROWNSVILLE ISD	92
14	PSJA THOMAS JEFFERSON T-STEM EARLY COLLEGE H S	PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD	92
14	WESLACO 21ST CENTURY CTE EARLY COLLEGE H S	WESLACO ISD	92
17	HANNA EARLY COLLEGE H S	BROWNSVILLE ISD	90
17	SOUTH TEXAS ISD MEDICAL PROFESSIONS	SOUTH TEXAS ISD	90
17	ROBERT R VELA H S	EDINBURG CISD	90
17	PSJA SOUTHWEST EARLY COLLEGE H S	PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD	90
17	RAYMONDVILLE H S	RAYMONDVILLE ISD	90