# HOUSTON MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480813000159`
- **School name**: HOUSTON MIDDLE
- **Location**: AMARILLO, TX 79106
- **Address**: 815 INDEPENDENCE
- **District**: AMARILLO ISD (LEAID `4808130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.20840, -101.88230
- **Phone**: (806)326-3600

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 556
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 77
  - support_label: Additional Targeted Support

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 34 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient, 94.1% advanced — 34 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.6% proficient — 1,637 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 35.7% proficient, 13.0% advanced — 1,637 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.8% proficient — 611 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 83.2% proficient — 226 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 37.9% proficient — 153 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 64.6% proficient — 198 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 37.3% proficient, 14.7% advanced — 611 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 55.8% proficient, 16.8% advanced — 226 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 13.7% proficient, 2.0% advanced — 153 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 23.7% proficient, 8.6% advanced — 198 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 67.3% proficient — 611 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 76.3% proficient — 207 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 62.5% proficient — 208 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 62.8% proficient — 196 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 35.8% proficient, 12.3% advanced — 611 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 44.0% proficient, 15.5% advanced — 207 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 28.8% proficient, 12.0% advanced — 208 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 42.3% (279 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.8% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.0% (40 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 29.6% (169 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 118
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 40.5%
- **Black/African American**: 7.3%
- **Asian**: 20.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.3% — 133 students
- **English Learners**: 12.4% — 71 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 43 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 34 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,430
- **Federal share**: $1,686
- **State + local share**: $9,744
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 671
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,712,337
- **Federal share**: 20.1%
- **State share**: 49.5%
- **Local share**: 30.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,443,239

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $42,355
- **Poverty rate**: 21.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.0%
- **Unemployment**: 2.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,026
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.6 miles (PANTEX PLANT USDOE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.70 miles (110 N 23RD STREET FORMER TEXACO)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: AMARILLO MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.86211 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WILLS EL** — 0.5 mi away, 3.51% (this school: 6.83%)
- **AMTECH CAREER ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.83%)
- **AVONDALE EL** — 0.9 mi away, 5.11% (this school: 6.83%)
- **TASCOSA H S** — 1.0 mi away, 2.54% (this school: 6.83%)
- **BIVINS EL** — 1.4 mi away, 5.48% (this school: 6.83%)

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