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The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Spanish: Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas or locally as the Valley, RGV, or the 956 is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. [1]
It was known as Rio Grande Rehabilitation District until 1973 and renamed South Texas Independent School District (STISD) in 1974. STISD started as a residential school in Edinburg, named South Texas High School. To better accommodate the students of the lower Rio Grande Valley, STISD opened another school by the same name in Harlingen in 1967.
Weslaco is home to one of the nine sites of the World Birding Center [36] in the Rio Grande Valley. The site is located within the Estero Llano Grande State Park. [37] The Valley Nature Center is a six-acre park and environmental education center that focuses on the plants and animals of the Rio Grande Valley.
Saint Joseph Academy, sometimes referred to as St. Joe or SJA, is a private school conducted by the Marist Brothers of the Schools.It is located in Brownsville, Texas, United States, and serves junior high and high school students of the lower Rio Grande Valley and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
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By 2008 IDEA had 10 schools and was serving 4,000 students [6] and by 2010 IDEA had 14,000 students on a waiting list for its schools in the Rio Grande Valley. [ 7 ] In 2011 the Austin Independent School District contracted with IDEA to take over Allan Elementary, a school with a 95% low-income student population, and run it as an in-district ...
To honor the largest donation in the history of higher education in the Rio Grande Valley, the College of Business and Entrepreneurship was named Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship. Robert C. Vackar, CEO of Bert Ogden Auto Group, donated $15 million in the form of an endowment to the college. [18]
Texas Southmost College (TSC) was established in 1926 under the name "The Junior College of the Lower Rio Grande Valley." It admitted its first class on September 21 of that same year. In 1931, its name was changed to "Brownsville Junior College." In 1950, the institution was given the name, Texas Southmost College. [citation needed]