PSJA Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy

3 years of ratings

How this school's change over time is ranked

TEA publishes most measures for one year only, so a change ranking exists just where the same figure is published across years — the overall score, the five score domains, and per-student spending. This page does not yet state where PSJA Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy itself places on these lists, only that the lists exist; open one to find this school's own row.

Texas schools

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 Achievement—Not reported · similar 71.9 · region 80.8
• School Progress—Not reported · similar 78.8 · region 86.7
• Closing the Gaps—Not reported · similar 74.6 · region 83.2
• Academic Growth—Not reported · similar 72.3 · region 77.7
• Relative Performance—Not reported · similar 77 · region 86.3

• PSJA Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy
• Similar student population (2,225)
• Region 01: Edinburg (505)

Who this school serves

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

Students

188

Economically disadvantaged

81.9%−0.7 pts vs similar

English learners

44.7%+13.3 pts vs similar

Special education

11.7%−6.9 pts vs similar

Attendance

94.3%+1.0 pts vs similar

Chronically absent

14.3%−6.8 pts vs similar

Student demographics

• Hispanic 98.9%
• White 1.1%

Spending per student

Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.

• PSJA Sotomayor Building Blocks Academy
• TEA peer group
• Texas average

TEA's published file does not include peer-group spending for this entity, so no comparison is shown.

Not reported by TEA for this entity: peer.

Teachers

Average salary

$69,252+$1,853 vs similar

Teachers

13

Students per staff member

14.2

Teaching experience

• 1 to 5 years 15.2%
• 6 to 10 years 7.6%
• 11 to 20 years 54.5%
• 21 to 30 years 22.7%

Where this school ranks best

Out of 20 rankings computed across every published metric and every comparison group, these are the placements that stand out. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

• 80of 2,225

  Overall score

  Similar student population · of the 2,225 that report this measure · tied with 21

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These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this campus ranks poorly. Each statement below states its cohort and its denominator so it can be checked — a rank without an n is a boast, not a fact. Ties are shown because a shared ceiling is not a sole first place. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page comes from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026 and archived with a checksum so each number stays traceable to the bytes TEA served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for districts only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here — 9,086 entities in two formats is 18,172 assets, on top of everything else this site publishes, and that is past the 20,000-asset limit this site is published under. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 108909135.