About Vanguard Academy
Vanguard Academy is a public school system serving Hidalgo County, Texas, based in Edinburg. It serves 6,814 students across 6 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: small district. By enrollment it is the #175 largest of Texas’s 1211 school systems.
Size and structure
Vanguard Academy enrolls 6,814 students in 6 schools — an average of about 1,136 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #175 of 1211 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Vanguard Academy, from the NCES Common Core of Data (6,814 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Vanguard Academy employs about 407 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 16.7:1 — above the Texas average of about 14.9:1. Total district staff is roughly 856.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Texas funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Vanguard Academy are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Texas assigns A–F accountability ratings across Student Achievement, School Progress and Closing the Gaps. Look up Vanguard Academy’s ratings through the TEA School and District Accountability portal, which links to the TXschools.gov rating lookup.
Accreditation status
Texas accredits public districts itself: the Texas Education Agency assigns each district an accreditation status (Accredited, Accredited-Warned, Accredited-Probation or Not Accredited-Revoked), separate from any voluntary Cognia accreditation. See the Texas Education Agency for a district’s status.
Vanguard Academy vs. Texas
See every Texas district side by side in the Texas directory.
Look up Vanguard Academy’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):