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The Lead Center
Starr County · Region 01: Edinburg · 11 students
The Lead Center is rated D by TEA, scoring 65 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 92.1 average of the 224 schools serving a similar share of economically disadvantaged students, and below the statewide average of 81.3. TEA has published 1 year of scores for this school, so there is no trend to read yet.
Ranks 7,094th of 7,646 Texas schools (tied with 64 others), and 498th of 505 in Region 01: Edinburg.
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1 year of ratings
| Year | Rating | Score | Similar | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | D | 65 | 92.1 | 81.3 |
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 The Lead Center 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.
- The Lead Center
- Similar student population (224)
- Region 01: Edinburg (505)
| Domain | Score | Grade | Points to next grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Achievement | 65 | D | 5 |
| School Progress | 48 | F | 12 |
| Closing the Gaps | — | Not rated | — |
| Academic Growth | — | Not rated | — |
| Relative Performance | 48 | F | 12 |
Closest to moving up: Student Achievement, 5 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 Student Achievement (65), so School Progress (48) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 65.
Student outcomes
STAAR performance
- Approaches grade level
- Meets grade level
- Masters grade level
- Tick: Similar student population (224)
Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The tick on each bar marks the average for Similar student population (224 schools) — a comparison TEA does not publish.
Who this school serves
Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.
- Students
- 11
- Economically disadvantaged
- 0.0%−5.6 pts vs similar
- English learners
- 0.0%−10.6 pts vs similar
- Special education
- 18.2%+3.3 pts vs similar
- Attendance
- —
- Chronically absent
- —
Student demographics
- Hispanic 100%
Teachers
- Average salary
- $72,232+$2,682 vs similar
- Teachers
- 3
- Students per staff member
- 3.4
Teaching experience
- 21 to 30 years 93.8%
- Over 30 years 6.3%
Where this school ranks best
Out of 80 rankings computed across every published metric and every comparison group, these are the placements that stand out. Press Copy for a citable sentence.
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1of 27
Average teacher salary
Starr County · of the 27 that report this measure
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1of 12
Social Studies — Approaches
Starr County · of the 12 that report this measure
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2of 12
Social Studies — Meets
Starr County · of the 12 that report this measure
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10of 12
Social Studies — Masters
Starr County · of the 12 that report this measure · tied with 2
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25of 505
Average teacher salary
Region 01: Edinburg · of the 505 that report this measure
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1of 3,171
Social Studies — Approaches
Texas average · of the 3,171 that report this measure · tied with 151
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1of 196
Social Studies — Approaches
Region 01: Edinburg · of the 196 that report this measure · tied with 11
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1of 71
Social Studies — Approaches
Similar student population · of the 71 that report this measure · tied with 4
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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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 214901006.