# FOSTER H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482658008559`
- **School name**: FOSTER H S
- **Location**: RICHMOND, TX 77406
- **Address**: 4400 FM 723
- **District**: LAMAR CISD (LEAID `4826580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.62716, -95.81008
- **Phone**: (832)223-3800
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6265438 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Randolph_Foster_High_School
- **Founded**: 2001

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,747
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 125
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 33.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 95

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 89.8% proficient — 471 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 63.1% proficient, 29.5% advanced — 471 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 92.3% proficient — 3,170 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 78.4% proficient, 35.1% advanced — 3,170 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 96.2% proficient — 660 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 83.6% proficient, 41.1% advanced — 660 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 87.3% proficient — 710 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 76.1% proficient, 30.4% advanced — 710 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 89.2% proficient — 659 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 78.8% proficient, 24.1% advanced — 659 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 91.7% proficient — 589 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 68.4% proficient, 27.7% advanced — 589 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 88.2% proficient — 1,369 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 77.4% proficient, 27.4% advanced — 1,369 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 96.5% (cohort of 484)
- **2018**: 98.0% (cohort of 449)
- **2017**: 96.0% (cohort of 592)
- **2016**: 97.0% (cohort of 539)
- **2015**: 95.0% (cohort of 505)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 510

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.8% (115 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (37 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.8% (304 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 24
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.7%
- **Black/African American**: 9.5%
- **Asian**: 24.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 30.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.5% — 167 students
- **English Learners**: 5.0% — 130 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 55 students
- **Autism**: 30 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,139
- **Federal share**: $680
- **State + local share**: $9,459
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,910
### 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**: $131,437
- **Poverty rate**: 7.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,148
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.1 miles (CRYSTAL CHEMICAL CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.16 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**: 12.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BRISCOE JH** — 0.2 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 0.35%)
- **BENTLEY EL** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **JUAN SEGUIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER** — 3.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **FROST EL** — 4.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **JACKSON EL** — 4.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)

### graduation rate
- **FULSHEAR H S** — 6.7 mi away, 98% (this school: 97%)

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

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