# HOUSTON HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480011508239`
- **School name**: HOUSTON HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77008
- **Address**: 1125 LAWRENCE ST
- **District**: HOUSTON HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL (LEAID `4800115`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 29.79169, -95.40742
- **Phone**: (713)868-9797
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5916577 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Heights_High_School
- **Founded**: 1999

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 192
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.3:1

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 90
  - support_label: Comprehensive Progress

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 67.6% proficient — 34 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 20.6% proficient, 2.9% advanced — 34 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 69.8% proficient — 262 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 31.7% proficient, 5.7% advanced — 262 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 65.0% proficient — 40 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 7.5% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 40 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 59.6% proficient — 52 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 25.0% proficient, 1.9% advanced — 52 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 63.2% proficient — 68 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 36.8% proficient, 5.9% advanced — 68 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.7% proficient — 36 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 22.2% proficient, 2.8% advanced — 36 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 61.7% proficient — 120 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 31.7% proficient, 4.2% advanced — 120 tested
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 69.0% (cohort of 84)
- **2018**: 87.0% (cohort of 107)
- **2017**: 72.0% (cohort of 103)
- **2016**: 82.0% (cohort of 85)
- **2015**: 87.0% (cohort of 80)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.8% (46 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.7% (21 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**: 71.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 19.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.0% — 25 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,420
- **Federal share**: $1,471
- **State + local share**: $10,949
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 192
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,331,429
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 78.9%
- **Local share**: 0.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,268,571

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $158,375
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 77.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,422
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.6 miles (SOUTH CAVALCADE STREET)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 76
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.81 miles (SMITH INDUSTIRES INC LIQUIDATING TRUST PROPERTY)

### 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**: 12.1623 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **HEIGHTS H S** — 0.9 mi away, 94% (this school: 72%)
- **WALTRIP H S** — 2.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 72%)
- **NORTHSIDE H S** — 3.0 mi away, 84% (this school: 72%)
- **LAMAR H S** — 3.7 mi away, 93% (this school: 72%)
- **YES PREP - NORTHSIDE** — 4.0 mi away, 92% (this school: 72%)

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

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