# DESOTO H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481686001459`
- **School name**: DESOTO H S
- **Location**: DESOTO, TX 75115
- **Address**: 600 EAGLE DR
- **District**: DESOTO ISD (LEAID `4816860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.58128, -96.86934
- **Phone**: (972)230-0726
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5244108 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_High_School_(Texas)
- **Founded**: 1956

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,936
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 105
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: C
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 76

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 68.7% proficient — 651 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 19.0% proficient, 4.5% advanced — 651 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 72.1% proficient — 3,365 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 37.0% proficient, 6.4% advanced — 3,365 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 78.7% proficient — 644 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 34.6% proficient, 5.1% advanced — 644 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 63.7% proficient — 758 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 37.5% proficient, 4.6% advanced — 758 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 64.5% proficient — 670 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 40.7% proficient, 3.4% advanced — 670 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.9% proficient — 750 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 22.5% proficient, 4.3% advanced — 750 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 64.1% proficient — 1,428 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 39.0% proficient, 4.1% advanced — 1,428 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 57.0% proficient
- **School Progress (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.7% proficient — 644 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 640)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 234

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.0% (225 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.1% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.9% (386 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 77.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 65.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 265 students
- **English Learners**: 5.4% — 110 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 202 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 45 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 44 students
- **Autism**: 31 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 24 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,807,598
- **Federal share**: 21.8%
- **State share**: 29.0%
- **Local share**: 49.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,099,537

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $95,651
- **Poverty rate**: 9.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.2%
- **Unemployment**: 17.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,776
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.4 miles (LANE PLATING WORKS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.07 miles (GATEWAY ESTATES SUBDIVISION GLENN HEIGHTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF DESOTO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1585 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **RED OAK H S** — 6.4 mi away, 91% (this school: 90%)
- **DUNCANVILLE H S** — 6.5 mi away, 96% (this school: 90%)
- **MIDLOTHIAN HERITAGE H S** — 8.0 mi away, 94% (this school: 90%)
- **MIDLOTHIAN H S** — 10.5 mi away, 94% (this school: 90%)
- **WAXAHACHIE H S** — 10.8 mi away, 95% (this school: 90%)

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