# FRANK NEWMAN MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481540006383`
- **School name**: FRANK NEWMAN MIDDLE
- **Location**: COTULLA, TX 78014
- **Address**: 608 CARRIZO ST
- **District**: COTULLA ISD (LEAID `4815400`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.43538, -99.24043
- **Phone**: (830)879-2224

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 259
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 91

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 30 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient, 100.0% advanced — 30 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.7% proficient — 710 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 43.9% proficient, 17.7% advanced — 710 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.6% proficient — 261 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 79.0% proficient — 62 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 63.0% proficient — 92 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 71.4% proficient — 77 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 43.7% proficient, 18.4% advanced — 261 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 41.9% proficient, 9.7% advanced — 62 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 34.8% proficient, 6.5% advanced — 92 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 33.8% proficient, 7.8% advanced — 77 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 79.1% proficient — 263 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 86.0% proficient — 93 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 72.8% proficient — 92 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 78.2% proficient — 78 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.4% (106 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.2% (39 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 18
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 95.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.5% — 55 students
- **English Learners**: 8.6% — 22 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 39 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,218
- **Federal share**: $565
- **State + local share**: $11,653
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 302
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,395,904
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 14.7%
- **Local share**: 69.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,868,601

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,721
- **Poverty rate**: 26.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.0%
- **Unemployment**: 1.5%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 77.4 miles (R H OIL TROPICANA ENERGY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 16.83 miles (MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILL 444)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF COTULLA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **RAMIREZ-BURKS EL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.87% (this school: 1.95%)
- **COTULLA H S** — 1.1 mi away, 1.13% (this school: 1.95%)

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