# CATHEY MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482967008845`
- **School name**: CATHEY MIDDLE
- **Location**: MCALLEN, TX 78501
- **Address**: 1800 N CYNTHIA
- **District**: MCALLEN ISD (LEAID `4829670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.21830, -98.21318
- **Phone**: (956)971-4300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 827
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 95

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 80 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 96.2% proficient, 87.5% advanced — 80 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 81.8% proficient — 2,105 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 59.9% proficient, 31.4% advanced — 2,105 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 81.4% proficient — 769 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 86.3% proficient — 234 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 72.2% proficient — 255 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 80.0% proficient — 200 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 55.9% proficient, 29.5% advanced — 769 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 64.1% proficient, 32.5% advanced — 234 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 49.0% proficient, 23.1% advanced — 255 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 39.0% proficient, 11.0% advanced — 200 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 86.5% proficient — 768 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 90.1% proficient — 283 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 87.3% proficient — 244 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 81.3% proficient — 241 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (13 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.9% (107 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 91.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.9%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 71.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.1% — 92 students
- **English Learners**: 35.8% — 297 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,041
- **Federal share**: $562
- **State + local share**: $8,479
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 970
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,351,053
- **Federal share**: 34.8%
- **State share**: 35.5%
- **Local share**: 29.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,087,751

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,714
- **Poverty rate**: 7.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,136
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.7 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.75 miles (BICENTENNIAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCALLEN PUBLIC UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 14.0758 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

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