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J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy

Hidalgo County · Region 01: Edinburg · 331 students

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Current score
67/1002025-26
Change
−27 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−10.7 ptsvs 77.7 average · 1,827 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
1,513 of 1,827tied with 32 others
D67

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 below the 77.7 average for 1,827 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Current strength

Chronically absent lower than the similar-context average

17.3% −6.1 pts vs 23.4%

  • 17.3% is 6.1 percentage points lower than the 23.4% average among 1,719 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Current strength

Attendance above the similar-context average

94.1% +1.2 pts vs 92.9%

  • 94.1% is 1.2 percentage points above the 92.9% average among 1,725 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

J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy is rated D by TEA, scoring 67 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 77.7 average for 1,827 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is down 27 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 1,513th of 1,827 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 32 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 averageJ W Caceres Discovery Int Academy 9464877267 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
2025-26D6777.7 1,827 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25C7277.5 1,810 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24B8773.9 1,794 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23D6473.3 1,790 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22A9482.0 1,768 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 Achievement62 D−8.3 vs similar economic context · 1,696 reporting
  • School Progress70 C−8.9 vs similar economic context · 1,693 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps61 D−14.1 vs similar economic context · 1,684 reporting
  • Academic Growth63 D−10.4 vs similar economic context · 1,671 reporting
  • Relative Performance70 C−6.9 vs similar economic context · 1,692 reporting
  • J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,827 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement62D8
School Progress70C10
Closing the Gaps61D9
Academic Growth63D7
Relative Performance70C10

Closest to moving up: Closing the Gaps, 9 points below C 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 (70), so Student Achievement (62) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 70.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level62%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
  • Meets grade level35%−6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
  • Masters grade level12%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level65%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
  • Meets grade level40%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
  • Masters grade level14%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level64%−2 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,693 reporting
  • Meets grade level36%−3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,693 reporting
  • Masters grade level11%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,693 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level46%−17 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,601 reporting
  • Meets grade level19%−15 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,601 reporting
  • Masters grade level7%−7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,601 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,827 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
331
Economically disadvantaged
94.9%+2.8 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
52.6%+10.7 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
22.1%+4.6 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
94.1%+1.2 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
17.3%−6.1 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy

African American: 0.3%Hispanic: 99.4%White: 0.3%
  • African American 0.3%
  • Hispanic 99.4%
  • White 0.3%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,827 reporting for every category shown · 1,827 in full cohort

African American: 14.9%Hispanic: 77.3%White: 4.8%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 1.2%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 1.4%
  • African American 14.9%
  • Hispanic 77.3%
  • White 4.8%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 1.2%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 1.4%

Student counts behind the percentages

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

Students in this TEA accountability summary
331
Economically disadvantaged students
314
Emergent bilingual students
174
Special education students
73

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
53
Students in TEA mobility denominator
336
TEA-published mobility rate
15.8%

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 did not publish an enrollment count for 2025–26 in this PEIMS report, so no current year-over-year change is calculated. The latest available PEIMS count is 299 students in 2024–25.

Latest available PEIMS enrollment
299

2024–25

Enrollment in 2024–25

This school
299
Selected comparison
588.7

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,791 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy
School yearStudents enrolledJ W Caceres Discovery Int AcademyChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 292 First available year 609.6
2022–23 262 Decrease of 30 (10.3%) 605.8
2023–24 Not reported Not available —
2024–25 299 No adjacent prior year 588.7
2025–26 Not reported Not available —

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
Suppressed

Rate not available

Disciplinary actions
Suppressed

Rate not available

Cumulative year-end enrollment
329

2024–25

TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 360 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2021–22 351 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2022–23 303 15 5.0% 27 8.91 13.6% 32.8
2023–24 321 Suppressed — 15 4.67 — 33
2024–25 329 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
In-school suspensions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Out-of-school suspensions Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
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$14k$20k20182020202220242025
  • J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy
  • Parent district: Donna ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$12,487
Selected comparison
$13,276

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,809 rated schools reporting

−$789 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $12,487 per student for this campus, $19,080 per student for its parent district, Donna 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
YearJ W Caceres Discovery Int AcademyParent district: Donna ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$8,220$12,267$13,054$8,359 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,724 rated schools reporting
2019$7,974$11,928$13,108$8,372 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,748 rated schools reporting
2020$8,277$12,273$14,058$8,868 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,751 rated schools reporting
2021$8,793$13,012$14,797$9,712 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,753 rated schools reporting
2022$10,596$15,902$15,708$11,228 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,769 rated schools reporting
2023$13,185$18,547$16,792$11,864 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,790 rated schools reporting
2024$12,312$17,875$18,125$12,725 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,798 rated schools reporting
2025$12,487$19,080$18,972$13,276 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,809 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
$67,863−$623 vs similar economic context
Teachers
20−19.6 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
16.6+1.9 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy

1 to 5 years: 24.6%6 to 10 years: 16.6%11 to 20 years: 39.7%21 to 30 years: 15.1%Over 30 years: 4.5%
  • 1 to 5 years 24.6%
  • 6 to 10 years 16.6%
  • 11 to 20 years 39.7%
  • 21 to 30 years 15.1%
  • Over 30 years 4.5%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,827 reporting for every category shown · 1,827 in full cohort

Beginning: 7.6%1 to 5 years: 27%6 to 10 years: 18.7%11 to 20 years: 27.1%21 to 30 years: 14.9%Over 30 years: 3.5%
  • Beginning 7.6%
  • 1 to 5 years 27%
  • 6 to 10 years 18.7%
  • 11 to 20 years 27.1%
  • 21 to 30 years 14.9%
  • Over 30 years 3.5%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for J W Caceres Discovery Int Academy in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classJ W Caceres Discovery Int Academy · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Grade 320.618.5
Grade 421.618.3
Grade 518.219.1

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 3 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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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 108902109.