# BEN MILAM EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482253002277`
- **School name**: BEN MILAM EL
- **Location**: HARLINGEN, TX 78550
- **Address**: 1215 RANGERVILLE RD
- **District**: HARLINGEN CISD (LEAID `4822530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.16330, -97.70550
- **Phone**: (956)427-3150

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 389
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.2%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 62.8% proficient — 363 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 31.1% proficient, 9.9% advanced — 363 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 67.7% proficient — 155 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 79.2% proficient — 53 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 66.7% proficient — 48 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 57.4% proficient — 54 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 31.0% proficient, 9.7% advanced — 155 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 43.4% proficient, 18.9% advanced — 53 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 35.4% proficient, 10.4% advanced — 48 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 14.8% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 54 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 65.2% proficient — 155 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 66.0% proficient — 53 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 81.2% proficient — 48 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 50.0% proficient — 54 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 34.8% proficient, 11.0% advanced — 155 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 45.3% proficient, 24.5% advanced — 53 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 35.4% proficient, 6.2% advanced — 48 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 24.1% proficient, 1.9% advanced — 54 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 41.5% proficient — 53 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 41.5% proficient — 53 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.4% (54 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.7% (36 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 99.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.2% — 45 students
- **English Learners**: 29.5% — 109 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,037
- **Federal share**: $1,618
- **State + local share**: $8,418
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 417
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,885,954
- **Federal share**: 25.6%
- **State share**: 52.6%
- **Local share**: 21.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,190,703

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $44,638
- **Poverty rate**: 35.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.6%
- **Unemployment**: 9.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $964
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.9 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.09 miles (TEXACO BUILDING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HARLINGEN WATER WORKS SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-11-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HARLINGEN H S - SOUTH** — 1.3 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 1.89%)
- **LAMAR EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 1.89%)
- **HOUSTON EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 1.89%)
- **BOWIE EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.89%)
- **COAKLEY MIDDLE** — 1.5 mi away, 0.42% (this school: 1.89%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ben-milam-el-harlingen/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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