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Armando Cuellar MS

Hidalgo County · Region 01: Edinburg · 636 students

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Current score
86/1002025-26
Change
+6 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
+8.8 ptsvs 77.2 average · 2,357 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
466 of 2,357tied with 89 others
B86

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving up; under the rules in force back then it scored 76 in 2021-22. The current score is above the 77.2 average for 2,357 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Recent movement

Overall score rose 2 points

84 to 86 2024-25 to 2025-26

  • 86 is 8.8 points above the 77.2 average among 2,357 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Recent domain gain

School Progress rose 3 points

84 to 87 2024-25 to 2025-26

  • 87 is 8.6 points above the 78.4 average among 2,183 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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STAAR result

All Subjects above similar-context averages at Meets and Masters

Meets
46%vs 40.8% avg · +5.2 pts
Masters
19%vs 15.9% avg · +3.1 pts

Among 2,190 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.

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Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Armando Cuellar MS is rated B by TEA, scoring 86 out of 100 for 2025-26 — above the 77.2 average for 2,357 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is up 6 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 466th of 2,357 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 89 others).

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  1. Overview
  2. 5 years of ratings
  3. Where the score comes from
  4. Student outcomes
  5. Who this school serves
  6. Student counts behind the percentages
  7. Enrollment over time
  8. Discipline and removal from class
  9. Spending per student
  10. Teachers and actual class size
  11. Where this comes from

5 years of ratings

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Compare against
90807060 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageArmando Cuellar MS 8074698486 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated C with 76 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26B8677.2 2,357 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25B8477.0 2,343 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24D6974.0 2,327 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23C7474.3 2,313 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22B8081.6 2,290 reporting83.7 7,283 reporting

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

  • Student Achievement76 C+5.0 vs similar economic context · 2,190 reporting
  • School Progress87 B+8.6 vs similar economic context · 2,183 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps82 B+7.6 vs similar economic context · 2,168 reporting
  • Academic Growth78 C+5.8 vs similar economic context · 2,137 reporting
  • Relative Performance87 B+10.4 vs similar economic context · 2,183 reporting
  • Armando Cuellar MS
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,357 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement76C4
School Progress87B3
Closing the Gaps82B8
Academic Growth78C2
Relative Performance87B3

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 3 points below A in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (87), so Student Achievement (76) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 87.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level71%+4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,190 reporting
  • Meets grade level46%+5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,190 reporting
  • Masters grade level19%+3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,190 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level73%+4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,189 reporting
  • Meets grade level51%+6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,189 reporting
  • Masters grade level21%+3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,189 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level71%+5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,179 reporting
  • Meets grade level44%+6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,179 reporting
  • Masters grade level19%+5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,179 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level78%+13 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,033 reporting
  • Meets grade level53%+18 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,033 reporting
  • Masters grade level23%+9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,033 reporting
Social Studies3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level54%−11 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 793 reporting
  • Meets grade level28%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 793 reporting
  • Masters grade level11%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 793 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,357 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
636
Economically disadvantaged
85.1%−0.7 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
29.2%−5.7 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
18.7%+0.3 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
93.7%+0.6 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
32.4%+10.4 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Armando Cuellar MS

African American: 0.2%Hispanic: 98.7%White: 0.9%Asian: 0.2%
  • African American 0.2%
  • Hispanic 98.7%
  • White 0.9%
  • Asian 0.2%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,357 reporting for every category shown · 2,357 in full cohort

African American: 14.3%Hispanic: 72.5%White: 9.2%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 1.5%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 2.1%
  • African American 14.3%
  • Hispanic 72.5%
  • White 9.2%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 1.5%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 2.1%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
636
Economically disadvantaged students
541
Emergent bilingual students
186
Special education students
119

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
266
Students in TEA mobility denominator
710
TEA-published mobility rate
37.5%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 636 students in 2025–26, an increase of 2 (0.3%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
636

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
+2

Increase · +0.3%

Change since 2021–22
−24

Decrease · −3.6%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
636
Selected comparison
611.2

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,326 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Armando Cuellar MS
School yearStudents enrolledArmando Cuellar MSChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 660 First available year 643.4
2022–23 626 Decrease of 34 (5.2%) 641.9
2023–24 595 Decrease of 31 (5.0%) 635.6
2024–25 634 Increase of 39 (6.6%) 632.4
2025–26 636 Increase of 2 (0.3%) 611.2

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
158

22.9% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
391

56.58 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
691

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
22.9%
Selected comparison
13.2%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,619 rated schools reporting

+9.7 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
56.58
Selected comparison
31.9

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,739 rated schools reporting

+24.7 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Armando Cuellar MS
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 795 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2021–22 729 121 16.6% 249 34.16 12.6% 30.1
2022–23 673 168 25.0% 392 58.25 13.6% 33.3
2023–24 679 153 22.5% 402 59.20 13.7% 33.6
2024–25 691 158 22.9% 391 56.58 13.2% 31.9
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Armando Cuellar MS in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 158 22.9% 391 56.58 13.2% 31.9
In-school suspensions 76 11.0% 103 14.91 11.7% 23
Out-of-school suspensions 120 17.4% 207 29.96 8.7% 13.8
DAEP placements 63 9.1% 81 11.72 5.3% 6.4
Mandatory DAEP placements 34 4.9% 36 5.21 4.0% 4.6
Discretionary DAEP placements 34 4.9% 45 6.51 3.4% 4
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$7k$13k$20k20182020202220242025
  • Armando Cuellar MS
  • Parent district: Weslaco ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$14,795
Selected comparison
$13,260

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,341 rated schools reporting

+$1,535 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $14,795 per student for this campus, $16,073 per student for its parent district, Weslaco ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearArmando Cuellar MSParent district: Weslaco ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$9,678$12,128$13,054$8,275 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,224 rated schools reporting
2019$9,478$11,764$13,108$8,333 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,253 rated schools reporting
2020$9,823$11,593$14,058$8,857 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,263 rated schools reporting
2021$10,085$12,217$14,797$9,581 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,270 rated schools reporting
2022$12,064$13,586$15,708$11,016 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,290 rated schools reporting
2023$12,129$13,547$16,792$11,538 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,312 rated schools reporting
2024$12,471$13,798$18,125$12,468 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,326 rated schools reporting
2025$14,795$16,073$18,972$13,260 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,341 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$72,178+$4,546 vs similar economic context
Teachers
42+0.3 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
15+0.7 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Armando Cuellar MS

Beginning: 2.1%1 to 5 years: 7.5%6 to 10 years: 11.8%11 to 20 years: 36.3%21 to 30 years: 37.7%Over 30 years: 4.7%
  • Beginning 2.1%
  • 1 to 5 years 7.5%
  • 6 to 10 years 11.8%
  • 11 to 20 years 36.3%
  • 21 to 30 years 37.7%
  • Over 30 years 4.7%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,357 reporting for every category shown · 2,357 in full cohort

Beginning: 7.1%1 to 5 years: 27.4%6 to 10 years: 19%11 to 20 years: 27.2%21 to 30 years: 15%Over 30 years: 3.5%
  • Beginning 7.1%
  • 1 to 5 years 27.4%
  • 6 to 10 years 19%
  • 11 to 20 years 27.2%
  • 21 to 30 years 15%
  • Over 30 years 3.5%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Armando Cuellar MS in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classArmando Cuellar MS · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Grade 623.917.6
Secondary English14.815.2
Secondary languages other than English15.418.3
Secondary math2516.6
Secondary science25.117.8
Secondary social studies25.817.9

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 6 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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