# FERRIS H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481917001786`
- **School name**: FERRIS H S
- **Location**: FERRIS, TX 75125
- **Address**: 1025 E 8TH ST
- **District**: FERRIS ISD (LEAID `4819170`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.53292, -96.64672
- **Phone**: (972)544-3737

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 940
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 75
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - 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
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 75.9% proficient — 137 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 21.9% proficient, 4.4% advanced — 137 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.9% proficient — 1,183 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 49.1% proficient, 11.7% advanced — 1,183 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 84.8% proficient — 217 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 55.3% proficient, 11.1% advanced — 217 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 71.9% proficient — 310 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 45.2% proficient, 4.5% advanced — 310 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 75.2% proficient — 274 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 53.3% proficient, 4.4% advanced — 274 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 75.5% proficient — 184 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 22.3% proficient, 3.3% advanced — 184 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.5% proficient — 584 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 49.0% proficient, 4.5% advanced — 584 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 96.5% (cohort of 199)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 5

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 32.3% (240 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.2% (126 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 72
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 76.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 5.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 16.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.8% — 87 students
- **English Learners**: 22.6% — 201 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 53 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,507
- **Federal share**: $148
- **State + local share**: $10,359
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 767
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,268,821
- **Federal share**: 14.4%
- **State share**: 62.5%
- **Local share**: 23.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,770,342

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,906
- **Poverty rate**: 12.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,063
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.9 miles (LANE PLATING WORKS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.72 miles (GATEWAY ESTATES SUBDIVISION GLENN HEIGHTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF FERRIS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 9
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-15

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1585 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
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- **LUCY MAE MCDONALD EL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.79%)
- **LEE LONGINO EL** — 1.8 mi away, 0.76% (this school: 0.79%)
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## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ferris-h-s-ferris/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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