# GARZA INDEPENDENCE H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480894008060`
- **School name**: GARZA INDEPENDENCE H S
- **Location**: AUSTIN, TX 78702
- **Address**: 1600 CHICON
- **District**: AUSTIN ISD (LEAID `4808940`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 10–12
- **Coordinates**: 30.27752, -97.72119
- **Phone**: (512)414-8600
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5582200 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Garza_Independence_High_School
- **Founded**: 1939

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 199
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 90

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 85.7% proficient — 7 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 14.3% proficient, 14.3% advanced — 7 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 85.7% proficient — 105 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 60.0% proficient, 23.8% advanced — 105 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 11 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 63.6% proficient, 9.1% advanced — 11 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 37.5% proficient — 8 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 25.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 8 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 73.3% proficient — 15 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 66.7% proficient, 13.3% advanced — 15 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 81.8% proficient — 22 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 40.9% proficient, 9.1% advanced — 22 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 60.9% proficient — 23 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 52.2% proficient, 8.7% advanced — 23 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 100.0% proficient — 11 tested
- **Science % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 63.6% proficient, 9.1% advanced — 11 tested
- **Social Studies % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 95.9% proficient — 49 tested
- **Social Studies % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 71.4% proficient, 40.8% advanced — 49 tested
- **Student Achievement (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 70.6% (cohort of 51)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 7

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 72.7% (133 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 10.6% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 54.8% (103 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**: 45.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 7.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 39.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 43.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.2% — 6 students
- **English Learners**: 5.8% — 11 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,502
- **Federal share**: $782
- **State + local share**: $26,720
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 142
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,719,713
- **Federal share**: 18.1%
- **State share**: 6.6%
- **Local share**: 75.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,838,463

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,833
- **Poverty rate**: 7.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 76.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,897
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 43.7 miles (MAIN STREET GROUND WATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 31
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.27 miles (1202 SALINA STREET JT S BODY SHOP)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF AUSTIN WATER & WASTEWATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 22
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 22
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-02-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.53881 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **AUSTIN ISD PREK PARTNERSHIP (PKP)** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.66%)
- **KEALING MIDDLE** — 0.4 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 2.66%)
- **TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - AUSTIN** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.66%)
- **EASTSIDE EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 0.9 mi away, 2.18% (this school: 2.66%)
- **OAK SPRINGS EL** — 1.1 mi away, 2.18% (this school: 2.66%)

### graduation rate
- **AUSTIN H S** — 2.8 mi away, 98% (this school: 37%)
- **TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 3.4 mi away, 94% (this school: 37%)
- **MCCALLUM H S** — 3.4 mi away, 98% (this school: 37%)
- **NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 3.7 mi away, 97% (this school: 37%)
- **KIPP AUSTIN COLLEGIATE** — 4.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 37%)

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

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