South Palm Gardens High School

Size

South Palm Gardens High School is the 3rd largest of Weslaco ISD's 6 high schools; its 72 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 284 students, so South Palm Gardens High School is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 12 with 55 students, and its smallest is grade 10 with 6, against an average of 24 per grade. This year grade 12 has 817% more students than grade 10 (55 against 6). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 98.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Weslaco ISD (98%).

93.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.2% across Weslaco ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

South Palm Gardens High School has 4.86 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 72 students would have about 5.1 teachers, so South Palm Gardens High School has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

NCES classifies its location as rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other high school is South Texas ISD Virtual Academy, 0.8 miles away in South Texas ISD. There are 16 high schools within 5 miles and 22 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.