# FIELDS EL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/fields-el-mcallen

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482967003334`
- **School name**: FIELDS EL
- **Location**: MCALLEN, TX 78501
- **Address**: 500 W DALLAS AVE
- **District**: MCALLEN ISD (LEAID `4829670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.20021, -98.22568
- **Phone**: (956)971-4344

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 443
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 88

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 63.0% proficient — 465 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 34.8% proficient, 14.6% advanced — 465 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 62.2% proficient — 196 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 77.1% proficient — 70 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 54.4% proficient — 57 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 53.6% proficient — 69 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 35.7% proficient, 14.8% advanced — 196 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 48.6% proficient, 18.6% advanced — 70 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 35.1% proficient, 15.8% advanced — 57 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 23.2% proficient, 10.1% advanced — 69 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 63.6% proficient — 198 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 73.6% proficient — 72 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 61.4% proficient — 57 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 55.1% proficient — 69 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 36.9% proficient, 15.7% advanced — 198 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 45.8% proficient, 20.8% advanced — 72 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.8% (63 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.4% (29 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**: 96.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.1% — 87 students
- **English Learners**: 57.0% — 260 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,286
- **Federal share**: $855
- **State + local share**: $8,431
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 489
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,351,053
- **Federal share**: 34.8%
- **State share**: 35.5%
- **Local share**: 29.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,087,751

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $74,327
- **Poverty rate**: 27.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 49.5%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,091
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.6 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.29 miles (BICENTENNIAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCALLEN PUBLIC UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 14.0758 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HORIZON MONTESSORI - STEM ACADEMY** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.66%)
- **TRIUMPH PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS-MCALLEN** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.66%)
- **MEMORIAL H S** — 0.9 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 0.66%)
- **THIGPEN-ZAVALA EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.66%)
- **CATHEY MIDDLE** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.66%)

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