# BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481623006088`
- **School name**: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATORY ACAD
- **Location**: DALLAS, TX 75230
- **Address**: 6920 MEADOW RD
- **District**: DALLAS ISD (LEAID `4816230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.88620, -96.78525
- **Phone**: (972)502-7100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 808
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 73

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 85 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 87.1% proficient, 54.1% advanced — 85 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.8% proficient — 2,092 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 45.4% proficient, 17.4% advanced — 2,092 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.7% proficient — 753 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 72.6% proficient — 416 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 87.5% proficient — 8 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 78.3% proficient — 244 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 46.6% proficient, 19.8% advanced — 753 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 39.4% proficient, 13.0% advanced — 416 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 87.5% proficient, 62.5% advanced — 8 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 43.4% proficient, 18.0% advanced — 244 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 76.7% proficient — 751 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 81.8% proficient — 264 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 75.3% proficient — 247 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 72.5% proficient — 240 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 26.4% (283 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.8% (81 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 74.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 17.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.5% — 145 students
- **English Learners**: 75.0% — 622 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 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**: $163,214
- **Poverty rate**: 1.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 75.1%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,495
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.1 miles (RSR CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 27
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.67 miles (2306 MOTOR STREET)

### 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**: 9.23604 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HILLCREST H S** — 0.2 mi away, 1.13% (this school: 1.81%)
- **PRESTON HOLLOW EL** — 0.7 mi away, 1.01% (this school: 1.81%)
- **GEORGE B DEALEY MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 0.8 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 1.81%)
- **ARTHUR KRAMER EL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.81%)
- **LEE A MCSHAN JR EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 1.81%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-dallas/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/benjamin-franklin-international-exploratory-acad-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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