# HIGHTOWER H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481965007885`
- **School name**: HIGHTOWER H S
- **Location**: MISSOURI CITY, TX 77459
- **Address**: 3333 HURRICANE LN
- **District**: FORT BEND ISD (LEAID `4819650`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.53161, -95.49785
- **Phone**: (281)634-5240
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5759722 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hightower_High_School
- **Founded**: 1998

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,312
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 143
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - academic_growth: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 70

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 63.6% proficient — 772 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 19.8% proficient, 6.1% advanced — 772 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 74.0% proficient — 4,164 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.5% proficient, 10.6% advanced — 4,164 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 82.5% proficient — 775 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 39.0% proficient, 8.1% advanced — 775 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 64.8% proficient — 914 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 40.9% proficient, 6.6% advanced — 914 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 69.6% proficient — 881 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 43.7% proficient, 4.0% advanced — 881 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.8% proficient — 891 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 24.1% proficient, 6.1% advanced — 891 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 67.1% proficient — 1,795 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 42.3% proficient, 5.3% advanced — 1,795 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 82.5% proficient — 775 tested
- **Science % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 39.0% proficient, 8.1% advanced — 775 tested
- **Social Studies % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 91.6% proficient — 703 tested
- **Social Studies % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 64.4% proficient, 32.4% advanced — 703 tested
- **Student Achievement (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 92.8% (cohort of 554)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 532

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.4% (396 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.1% (251 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 15
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.1%
- **Black/African American**: 7.1%
- **Asian**: 61.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.5% — 238 students
- **English Learners**: 6.7% — 168 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 54 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 44 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 32 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 11 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,773
- **Federal share**: $533
- **State + local share**: $9,241
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,022
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,793,978
- **Federal share**: 14.7%
- **State share**: 26.9%
- **Local share**: 58.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,457,154

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,676
- **Poverty rate**: 2.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,179
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.8 miles (SOL LYNN INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.05 miles (PEARLAND ASSAULT BASEBALL CLUB)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: QUAIL VALLEY UTILITY DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-08-16

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.8623 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ROSA PARKS EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)
- **WALTER MOSES BURTON EL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)
- **LULA BELLE GOODMAN EL** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)
- **SIENNA CROSSING EL** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)
- **BILLY BAINES MIDDLE** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.52%)

### graduation rate
- **RIDGE POINT H S** — 3.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 92%)
- **LAWRENCE E ELKINS H S** — 3.8 mi away, 94% (this school: 92%)
- **STAFFORD H S** — 5.5 mi away, 95% (this school: 92%)
- **THURGOOD MARSHALL H S** — 5.7 mi away, 93% (this school: 92%)
- **SHADOW CREEK H S** — 5.8 mi away, 98% (this school: 92%)

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

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