# DISCOVERY MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480012511234`
- **School name**: DISCOVERY MIDDLE
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77057
- **Address**: 6400 WESTPARK DR STE 200
- **District**: SOUTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS (LEAID `4800125`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 29.72384, -95.49943
- **Phone**: (713)954-9528

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 284
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 3
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 94.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 80
  - support_label: Targeted Support

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 18 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 50.0% proficient, 5.6% advanced — 18 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 55.5% proficient — 596 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 19.5% proficient, 3.5% advanced — 596 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 59.9% proficient — 232 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 57.4% proficient — 47 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 49.3% proficient — 71 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 61.5% proficient — 96 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 18.5% proficient, 2.2% advanced — 232 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 17.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 47 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 21.1% proficient, 4.2% advanced — 71 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 11.5% proficient, 1.0% advanced — 96 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 59.4% proficient — 234 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 70.8% proficient — 65 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 53.4% proficient — 73 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 56.2% proficient — 96 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.7% (39 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 92.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 4.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.8% — 27 students
- **English Learners**: 95.6% — 238 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,969
- **Federal share**: $1,907
- **State + local share**: $10,062
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 321
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,920,105
- **Federal share**: 27.7%
- **State share**: 70.0%
- **Local share**: 2.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,139,489

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $35,152
- **Poverty rate**: 50.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.8%
- **Unemployment**: 9.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,161
- **Foreign-born residents**: 61.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.9 miles (CRYSTAL CHEMICAL CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.78 miles (3906 WESTHOLME DR)

### 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**: 1.9 miles

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