# DOWNS FINE ARTS ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483879004419`
- **School name**: DOWNS FINE ARTS ACADEMY
- **Location**: SAN BENITO, TX 78586
- **Address**: 1302 N DOWLING
- **District**: SAN BENITO CISD (LEAID `4838790`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.13967, -97.62067
- **Phone**: (956)361-6720

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 426
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 83

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.8% proficient — 386 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 50.8% proficient, 21.2% advanced — 386 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 81.5% proficient — 162 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 90.3% proficient — 62 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 77.3% proficient — 44 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 75.0% proficient — 56 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 55.6% proficient, 21.0% advanced — 162 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 64.5% proficient, 24.2% advanced — 62 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 54.5% proficient, 31.8% advanced — 44 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 46.4% proficient, 8.9% advanced — 56 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 82.7% proficient — 162 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 79.0% proficient — 62 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 81.8% proficient — 44 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 87.5% proficient — 56 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 53.7% proficient, 24.7% advanced — 162 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 48.4% proficient, 27.4% advanced — 62 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.4% (40 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.0% (25 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 98.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.1% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 5.6% — 20 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,064
- **Federal share**: $1,204
- **State + local share**: $10,860
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 376
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,627,836
- **Federal share**: 33.8%
- **State share**: 54.4%
- **Local share**: 11.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,788,405

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,654
- **Poverty rate**: 20.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $622
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 29.0 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.02 miles (TEXACO BUILDING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SAN BENITO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2851 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 17.9 miles

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