# CHALLENGE EARLY COLLEGE H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482364009609`
- **School name**: CHALLENGE EARLY COLLEGE H S
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77081
- **Address**: 5601 W LOOP S
- **District**: HOUSTON ISD (LEAID `4823640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.72154, -95.45721
- **Phone**: (713)664-9712
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5068906 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_Early_College_High_School
- **Founded**: 2003

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 485
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.4%

## 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: 98

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.7% proficient — 76 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 78.9% proficient, 44.7% advanced — 76 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 98.3% proficient — 595 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 85.9% proficient, 40.0% advanced — 595 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 123 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 87.8% proficient, 48.0% advanced — 123 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 99.2% proficient — 120 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 95.0% proficient, 35.8% advanced — 120 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.3% proficient — 121 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 89.3% proficient, 23.1% advanced — 121 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 94.6% proficient — 129 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 66.7% proficient, 28.7% advanced — 129 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 98.8% proficient — 241 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 92.1% proficient, 29.5% advanced — 241 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 100.0% (cohort of 102)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 199

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (13 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 2.9% (14 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 71.2%
- **Black/African American**: 5.8%
- **Asian**: 13.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.0% — 5 students
- **English Learners**: 6.9% — 33 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,069
- **Federal share**: $1,279
- **State + local share**: $6,791
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 463
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,123,680
- **Federal share**: 23.2%
- **State share**: 8.0%
- **Local share**: 68.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,523,039

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $87,431
- **Poverty rate**: 2.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,597
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.6 miles (SOL LYNN INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 38
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.11 miles (3437 WESTHEIMER ROAD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF HOUSTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.8623 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.1 miles

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