# ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480147914174`
- **School name**: ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: SAN ANTONIO, TX 78220
- **Address**: 4535 LORD RD
- **District**: ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `4801479`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 29.41446, -98.40232
- **Phone**: (210)997-5617

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 365
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 99.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 50.0% proficient — 68 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 16.2% proficient, 2.9% advanced — 68 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 36.7% proficient — 30 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 37.5% proficient — 8 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 26.7% proficient — 15 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 57.1% proficient — 7 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 3.3% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 30 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 0.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 8 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 0.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 15 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 14.3% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 7 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.3% proficient — 30 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 62.5% proficient — 8 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 86.7% proficient — 15 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 57.1% proficient — 7 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 33.3% proficient, 6.7% advanced — 30 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 25.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 8 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 46.7% proficient, 13.3% advanced — 15 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 14.3% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 7 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 12.5% proficient — 8 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 12.5% proficient — 8 tested

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.9%

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $38,651
- **Poverty rate**: 44.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.8%
- **Unemployment**: 11.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,129
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 40.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.7 miles (R H OIL TROPICANA ENERGY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.39 miles (AZTEC CERAMICS SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN ANTONIO WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-06-10

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.63417 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.0 miles

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