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Irene M Garcia MS

Hidalgo County · Region 01: Edinburg · 590 students

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Current score
86/1002025-26
Change
−5 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
+8.8 ptsvs 77.2 average · 2,374 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
476 of 2,374tied with 90 others
B86

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving down; under the rules in force back then it scored 92 in 2021-22. The current score is above the 77.2 average for 2,374 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 2,374 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Recent domain gain

Academic Growth rose 12 points

64 to 76 2024-25 to 2025-26

  • 76 is 3.8 points above the 72.2 average among 2,161 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
48%vs 40.8% avg · +7.2 pts
Masters
23%vs 15.9% avg · +7.1 pts

Among 2,211 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

Irene M Garcia MS is rated B by TEA, scoring 86 out of 100 for 2025-26 — above the 77.2 average for 2,374 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is down 5 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 476th of 2,374 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 90 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 averageIrene M Garcia MS 9191918486 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 A with 92 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 2,374 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25B8477.0 2,361 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24A9173.9 2,344 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23A9174.2 2,330 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22A9181.6 2,302 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 Achievement79 C+8.1 vs similar economic context · 2,211 reporting
  • School Progress90 A+11.6 vs similar economic context · 2,204 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps77 C+2.6 vs similar economic context · 2,190 reporting
  • Academic Growth76 C+3.8 vs similar economic context · 2,161 reporting
  • Relative Performance90 A+13.4 vs similar economic context · 2,204 reporting
  • Irene M Garcia MS
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,374 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement79C1
School Progress90A—
Closing the Gaps77C3
Academic Growth76C4
Relative Performance90A—

Closest to moving up: Closing the Gaps, 3 points below B 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 (90), so Student Achievement (79) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 90.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level73%+6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,211 reporting
  • Meets grade level48%+7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,211 reporting
  • Masters grade level23%+7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,211 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level81%+12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,210 reporting
  • Meets grade level59%+14 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,210 reporting
  • Masters grade level29%+11 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,210 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level68%+2 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,200 reporting
  • Meets grade level40%+2 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,200 reporting
  • Masters grade level15%+1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,200 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level77%+12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,058 reporting
  • Meets grade level51%+16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,058 reporting
  • Masters grade level26%+12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,058 reporting
Social Studies3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level57%−7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 796 reporting
  • Meets grade level34%−2 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 796 reporting
  • Masters grade level21%+6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 796 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,374 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
590
Economically disadvantaged
85.6%−0.6 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
32.2%−3.0 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
22.2%+3.8 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
94.8%+1.7 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
21.3%−0.8 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Irene M Garcia MS

Hispanic: 100%
  • Hispanic 100%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,374 reporting for every category shown · 2,374 in full cohort

African American: 14.2%Hispanic: 73.1%White: 8.8%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 1.4%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 2%
  • African American 14.2%
  • Hispanic 73.1%
  • White 8.8%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 1.4%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 2%

Student counts behind the percentages

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

Students in this TEA accountability summary
590
Economically disadvantaged students
505
Emergent bilingual students
190
Special education students
131

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
140
Students in TEA mobility denominator
639
TEA-published mobility rate
21.9%

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 590 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 11 (1.8%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
590

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−11

Decrease · −1.8%

Change since 2021–22
−67

Decrease · −10.2%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
590
Selected comparison
610.9

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,345 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Irene M Garcia MS
School yearStudents enrolledIrene M Garcia MSChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 657 First available year 643.7
2022–23 641 Decrease of 16 (2.4%) 641.2
2023–24 625 Decrease of 16 (2.5%) 634.7
2024–25 601 Decrease of 24 (3.8%) 631.9
2025–26 590 Decrease of 11 (1.8%) 610.9

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
145

23.0% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
345

54.76 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
630

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
23.0%
Selected comparison
13.3%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,625 rated schools reporting

+9.7 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
54.76
Selected comparison
32.1

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,746 rated schools reporting

+22.7 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Irene M Garcia MS
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 775 10 1.3% 19 2.45 7.7% 15
2021–22 706 169 23.9% 465 65.86 12.7% 30.2
2022–23 678 150 22.1% 306 45.13 13.6% 33.7
2023–24 646 119 18.4% 242 37.46 13.7% 33.9
2024–25 630 145 23.0% 345 54.76 13.3% 32.1
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Irene M Garcia MS in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 145 23.0% 345 54.76 13.3% 32.1
In-school suspensions 128 20.3% 259 41.11 11.7% 23.1
Out-of-school suspensions 49 7.8% 65 10.32 8.7% 14.1
DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
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
  • Irene M Garcia MS
  • Parent district: La Joya ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$10,032
Selected comparison
$13,269

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,358 rated schools reporting

−$3,237 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $10,032 per student for this campus, $15,199 per student for its parent district, La Joya ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

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

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Spending per student by year
YearIrene M Garcia MSParent district: La Joya ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$7,689$12,706$13,054$8,266 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,235 rated schools reporting
2019$7,696$13,017$13,108$8,327 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,266 rated schools reporting
2020$8,234$13,922$14,058$8,851 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,276 rated schools reporting
2021$8,685$14,753$14,797$9,547 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,282 rated schools reporting
2022$10,783$17,471$15,708$11,030 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,302 rated schools reporting
2023$11,731$17,081$16,792$11,566 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,328 rated schools reporting
2024$9,807$16,417$18,125$12,485 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,343 rated schools reporting
2025$10,032$15,199$18,972$13,269 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,358 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
$68,008+$381 vs similar economic context
Teachers
41−0.7 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
14.3−0.1 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Irene M Garcia MS

Beginning: 10.4%1 to 5 years: 2.4%6 to 10 years: 21.7%11 to 20 years: 29.2%21 to 30 years: 33.8%Over 30 years: 2.4%
  • Beginning 10.4%
  • 1 to 5 years 2.4%
  • 6 to 10 years 21.7%
  • 11 to 20 years 29.2%
  • 21 to 30 years 33.8%
  • Over 30 years 2.4%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,374 reporting for every category shown · 2,374 in full cohort

Beginning: 7.2%1 to 5 years: 27.4%6 to 10 years: 19%11 to 20 years: 27.3%21 to 30 years: 15.1%Over 30 years: 3.5%
  • Beginning 7.2%
  • 1 to 5 years 27.4%
  • 6 to 10 years 19%
  • 11 to 20 years 27.3%
  • 21 to 30 years 15.1%
  • Over 30 years 3.5%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Irene M Garcia MS in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classIrene M Garcia MS · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Grade 619.917.5
Secondary English17.415.3
Secondary languages other than English2018.3
Secondary math23.116.7
Secondary science24.217.9
Secondary social studies24.617.9

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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