High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12
South Palm Gardens High School, Mercedes, TX
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 72
- Teachers (FTE)
- 4.0
- Students per teacher
- 18.0
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 1.0 lower than the district figure of 19.0. The Texas average across schools is 15.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 2607 Camino Real Viejo, Mercedes, TX 78570
- Phone
- (956)565-0404
- District
- Weslaco ISD
- County
- Hidalgo County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 484496004795
School meals
- Free lunch
- 67
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 6793.1% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Weslaco ISD
- Weslaco High School 2,699 students
- Weslaco East High School 2,066 students
- Career and College Development Center 50 students
- Hidalgo Co J J a E P 14 students
High schools elsewhere in Mercedes
- Mercedes High School Mercedes ISD
- South Texas ISD Science Academy South Texas ISD
- South Texas ISD Health Professions South Texas ISD
- Mercedes Early College Academy Mercedes ISD
- South Texas ISD Virtual Academy South Texas ISD
- Triumph Public High Schools-Mercedes Triumph Public High Schools-Rio Grande Valley
- Mercedes Academic Academy Mercedes ISD
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.