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San Juan Diego Catholic Regional High School (Juan Diego Academy)

Catholic School for grades 9-12 in Mission. In the TEFA finder. Here's how the funding fits, what public records show, and what to ask on a visit.

Where this comes from. We read TEFA status from the Texas Education Freedom Accounts participating-school finder (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts) on October 12, 2026; student counts, grade span and faith tradition are drawn from the NCES Private School Survey (U.S. Department of Education). Tuition appears in neither, so ask the school for this year's rates and fees.

Funding at this school

$10,474
TEFA private-school award, 2026-27. It's the same at every grade served here (9-12).
$15,790 to $16,889
Typical TEFA total with an IEP for a McAllen ISD resident (resource/self-contained to mainstream)
$41,896
What the account adds up to over 4 years, grade 9 through grade 12, at the 2026-27 amount

San Juan Diego Catholic Regional High School (Juan Diego Academy) appeared as a participating school in the state TEFA finder on October 12, 2026, so a student with an Education Freedom Account can apply the 2026-27 award of $10,474 to tuition here. Odyssey pays the school on the state's behalf in three parts: 25% on July 1, 25% on October 1 and the last 50% on February 1.

Every Diocese of Brownsville school in Hidalgo and Starr counties was in the TEFA finder when we checked, and the diocese publishes a bilingual family guide to the program. Beyond TEFA, aid is set by each school, so ask about parishioner pricing, sibling rates and scholarships.

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On its latest federal Private School Survey (2023-24), the school listed 68 K-12 students, 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, a 9.7:1 student-teacher ratio, 90% of the previous year's graduates going on to four-year colleges and a 180-day school year.

Questions for your visit

  1. Do you expect to participate in TEFA in 2027-28, and can a child awarded mid-year start then?
  2. Which fees, such as registration, books, technology, uniforms or lunch, can be billed to the account?
  3. What sibling, parish or church-member rates and scholarships apply to any balance?
  4. Can you serve a child with an IEP, a speech need or a learning difference, and is that support included in tuition?
  5. Which dual-credit partners do you use, and can those course fees come from the account?

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IEP funding for nearby districts

Home districtTEFA-funded students (Jul 29, 2026)IEP: speech only (00)IEP: mainstream (40)IEP: resource / self-contained (41-44)IEP: residential facility (81-89)
McAllen ISD312$11,404$16,889$15,790$25,815
Sharyland ISD160$11,431$17,074$15,943$26,257
Mission CISD75$11,445$17,176$16,028$26,501
La Joya ISD72$11,395$16,826$15,738$25,665

Totals are the $10,474 base plus the district add-on from the Comptroller's 2026-27 Special Education Funding Table, capped at $30,000. Funded counts come from the TEFA Annual Demographic Report (data as of July 29, 2026); districts with fewer than 30 participants aren't listed in that report. All McAllen-area districts →

We list 7 K-12 private schools in McAllen, Mission & the West Valley, and 6 of them were in the TEFA finder.

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