High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
South Texas ISD Science Academy, Mercedes, TX
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 840
- Teachers (FTE)
- 65.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.9
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 1.2 lower than the district figure of 14.1. 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
- 900 Med High Dr, Mercedes, TX 78570
- Phone
- (956)565-4620
- District
- South Texas ISD
- County
- Hidalgo County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 483715000429
School meals
- Free lunch
- 457
- Reduced-price lunch
- 3
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 46054.8% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
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 South Texas ISD
- South Texas ISD Medical Professions 820 students
- South Texas ISD Health Professions 781 students
- South Texas ISD World Scholars 403 students
- South Texas ISD Virtual Academy 212 students
High schools elsewhere in Mercedes
- Mercedes High School Mercedes ISD
- Mercedes Early College Academy Mercedes ISD
- Triumph Public High Schools-Mercedes Triumph Public High Schools-Rio Grande Valley
- Mercedes Academic Academy Mercedes ISD
- South Palm Gardens High School Weslaco 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.