Tripoint Academy Sa, Benavides TX

Original Research by School Decision on Tripoint Academy Sa

Tripoint Academy SA is a charter school serving grades 2 through 10 in Benavides, a small, predominantly Hispanic South Texas ranch town in Duval County. The school enrolled a small student body, with the largest grade cohorts in grade 7. About three in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is racially mixed, with roughly equal shares of Hispanic and white students and a notable population of Asian students.

The school is located on West School Street in the town center, part of a consolidation effort announced for the 2025-26 school year. Benavides ISD moved its elementary students onto the secondary campus site, which underwent facility upgrades funded by a bond referendum addressing HVAC, plumbing, electrical systems, and technology infrastructure. This structural change means elementary and secondary students now share one physical location rather than attending separate buildings.

State test results from 2023-24 show mixed performance across grades. In English language arts, students in grades 6 and 8 performed strongest, with reading proficiency at or above the midpoint; grades 5 and 7 showed lower results. Math proficiency was more uneven. Grade 6 performed above the midpoint, grade 8 and 7 were near or slightly above the midpoint in some measures, while grade 5 lagged noticeably. Science results in grade 5 were weak; grade 8 performed closer to the midpoint. Grade 8 social studies proficiency was below the midpoint. Grade results from grades 3 and 4 were suppressed due to small cohort sizes. When proficiency rates are averaged across all tested subjects and grades, Tripoint Academy SA's overall index places it in the top quartile among Duval County districts, a position anchored mainly by stronger middle-grade performance in ELA and the grade 6 math result.

The school's academic positioning reflects both strength and volatility tied to small, shifting cohort sizes. Parents may want to understand from the school directly how the recent campus consolidation and the district's 2023 entry into the Rural Schools Innovation Zone, a five-district South Texas career and technical education partnership, shape the curriculum pathway and postsecondary options available to students finishing at the school. State graduation rate data was not available, likely because the school serves only through grade 10 and has not historically fed a large high school graduating class.

Housing values in the Benavides area are low, and the broader town has experienced steady population decline over decades. The locale offers compact walkability around a historic railroad-town spine, civic anchors including the branch library and Father Albert Benavides Park, and strong family-oriented, bilingual community character rooted in ranching and oil heritage. No major new residential development was found in recent years.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 0% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▼ 12 pts below state median

Grade 667%

School 67% · District 29% · ▲ 38 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median

Grade 740%

School 40% · District 27% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 843%

School 43% · District 22% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 14% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 667%

School 67% · District 43% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median

Grade 750%

School 50% · District 55% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 67% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median

Science

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 0% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 843%

School 43% · District 67% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 829%

School 29% · District 22% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median

This schoolBENAVIDES ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.