# DON CARTER EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482658013552`
- **School name**: DON CARTER EL
- **Location**: RICHMOND, TX 77469
- **Address**: 8500 A MEYERS RD
- **District**: LAMAR CISD (LEAID `4826580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.51117, -95.71934
- **Phone**: (832)223-5500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 758
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 38.0%

## 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
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 90.4% proficient — 1,026 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 68.0% proficient, 36.6% advanced — 1,026 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 91.6% proficient — 441 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 96.6% proficient — 145 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 89.4% proficient — 160 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 89.0% proficient — 136 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 71.2% proficient, 37.4% advanced — 441 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 75.2% proficient, 40.7% advanced — 145 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 68.8% proficient, 33.8% advanced — 160 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 69.9% proficient, 38.2% advanced — 136 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 90.7% proficient — 440 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 93.8% proficient — 145 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 91.2% proficient — 159 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 86.8% proficient — 136 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 68.9% proficient, 39.5% advanced — 440 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 73.1% proficient, 51.0% advanced — 145 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.4% (35 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.5%
- **Black/African American**: 13.9%
- **Asian**: 22.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 38.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 102 students
- **English Learners**: 11.2% — 112 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,470
- **Federal share**: $620
- **State + local share**: $8,850
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 666
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,180,955
- **Federal share**: 11.8%
- **State share**: 35.8%
- **Local share**: 52.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,836,100

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $122,578
- **Poverty rate**: 7.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.1%
- **Unemployment**: 14.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,135
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.2 miles (CRYSTAL CHEMICAL CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.32 miles (7777 DAIRY ASHFORD ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF RICHMOND
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.2435 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.5 miles

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

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