# ALEX W SPENCE TALENTED/GIFTED ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481623001359`
- **School name**: ALEX W SPENCE TALENTED/GIFTED ACADEMY
- **Location**: DALLAS, TX 75204
- **Address**: 4001 CAPITOL AVE
- **District**: DALLAS ISD (LEAID `4816230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.80785, -96.78798
- **Phone**: (972)925-2300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 486
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 80

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.1% proficient — 104 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 76.9% proficient, 40.4% advanced — 104 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.7% proficient — 1,438 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 40.8% proficient, 13.7% advanced — 1,438 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.1% proficient — 104 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 93.3% proficient, 15.4% advanced — 104 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 72.3% proficient — 531 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 61.3% proficient — 266 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 73.6% proficient — 159 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.8% proficient, 17.7% advanced — 531 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 28.6% proficient, 10.5% advanced — 266 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 40.3% proficient, 13.8% advanced — 159 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 74.5% proficient — 530 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 47.3% proficient — 93 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 78.7% proficient — 174 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 70.4% proficient — 159 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 50.6% proficient, 15.3% advanced — 530 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 51.3% (402 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.6% (54 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.3% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 25.2% (129 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 65.7%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 28.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 66 students
- **English Learners**: 56.8% — 291 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,129,543
- **Federal share**: 19.6%
- **State share**: 8.0%
- **Local share**: 72.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,009,174

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $79,415
- **Poverty rate**: 6.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.6%
- **Unemployment**: 9.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,670
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.4 miles (RSR CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 75
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.12 miles (DALLAS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DALLAS WATER UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1585 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **IGNITE MIDDLE** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.55%)
- **NORTH DALLAS H S** — 0.5 mi away, 4.55% (this school: 10.55%)
- **CESAR CHAVEZ LEARNING CENTER** — 0.5 mi away, 0.73% (this school: 10.55%)
- **BEN MILAM EL** — 0.6 mi away, 6.98% (this school: 10.55%)
- **INNOVATION DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.55%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/alex-w-spence-talented-gifted-academy-dallas/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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