# CASTANEDA EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168000655`
- **School name**: CASTANEDA EL
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78521
- **Address**: 3201 LIMA ST
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.90385, -97.46320
- **Phone**: (956)548-8800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 823
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 51
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 97

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.0% proficient — 466 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 44.6% proficient, 17.2% advanced — 466 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 80.1% proficient — 201 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 82.8% proficient — 64 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 89.9% proficient — 69 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 67.6% proficient — 68 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.8% proficient, 17.9% advanced — 201 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 37.5% proficient, 12.5% advanced — 64 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 66.7% proficient, 30.4% advanced — 69 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 38.2% proficient, 10.3% advanced — 68 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 80.1% proficient — 201 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 82.8% proficient — 64 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 85.5% proficient — 69 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 72.1% proficient — 68 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 48.8% proficient, 20.9% advanced — 201 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 51.6% proficient, 18.8% advanced — 64 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.8% (49 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.2% (34 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**: 98.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 80 students
- **English Learners**: 56.1% — 265 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,549
- **Federal share**: $909
- **State + local share**: $8,640
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 585
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,217,228
- **Federal share**: 30.3%
- **State share**: 55.9%
- **Local share**: 13.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,012,718

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $33,036
- **Poverty rate**: 25.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.7%
- **Unemployment**: 10.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,101
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 41.3 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.32 miles (GONZALEZ PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BROWNSVILLE PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2851 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CROMACK EL** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **DEL CASTILLO EL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **PORTER EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 0.8 mi away, 0.59% (this school: 0.64%)
- **GARZA EL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **OLIVEIRA MIDDLE** — 1.6 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 0.64%)

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