# HICKS EL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/hicks-el-houston/llm*

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

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480783007308`
- **School name**: HICKS EL
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77083
- **Address**: 8520 HEMLOCK HILL DR
- **District**: ALIEF ISD (LEAID `4807830`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.68707, -95.62765
- **Phone**: (281)983-8040

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 645
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.0%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.8% proficient — 426 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 39.0% proficient, 13.6% advanced — 426 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.7% proficient — 213 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 70.0% proficient — 110 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 63.1% proficient — 103 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 38.5% proficient, 13.6% advanced — 213 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 44.5% proficient, 16.4% advanced — 110 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 32.0% proficient, 10.7% advanced — 103 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 70.9% proficient — 213 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 73.6% proficient — 110 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 68.0% proficient — 103 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 39.4% proficient, 13.6% advanced — 213 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 40.0% proficient, 16.4% advanced — 110 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 38.8% proficient, 10.7% advanced — 103 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.2% (106 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.3% (43 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 11
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 43.5%
- **Black/African American**: 19.6%
- **Asian**: 32.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.6% — 80 students
- **English Learners**: 39.5% — 272 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,764
- **Federal share**: $1,159
- **State + local share**: $8,605
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 755
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,378,689
- **Federal share**: 25.3%
- **State share**: 39.8%
- **Local share**: 34.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,396,296

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $80,993
- **Poverty rate**: 15.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,465
- **Foreign-born residents**: 61.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.4 miles (CRYSTAL CHEMICAL CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.46 miles (7777 DAIRY ASHFORD ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF HOUSTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.2435 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KERR H S** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)
- **TAYLOR H S** — 0.6 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 1.02%)
- **KILLOUGH MIDDLE** — 0.9 mi away, 0.65% (this school: 1.02%)
- **HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)
- **KIPP UNITY PRI** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.02%)

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

---
*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.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*