Harlingen, TX schools
Kids attend one of 15 elementary schools through grade 5, then one of 14 elementary schools, one of 5 middle schools and one of 4 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Harlingen’s School Grade: C
The public schools Harlingen’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 70% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Texas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2019.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Texas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Texas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Harlingen kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
State test results
91% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #431 of 584 TX towns →
The district serving Harlingen
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Harlingen
There’s no college in Harlingen, but 3 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Southern Careers Institute-Brownsville in Brownsville, 21.4 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Harlingen. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 46 schools in Harlingen
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.