# J W CACERES DISCOVERY INT ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481739006244`
- **School name**: J W CACERES DISCOVERY INT ACADEMY
- **Location**: DONNA, TX 78537
- **Address**: 503 S HUTTO RD
- **District**: DONNA ISD (LEAID `4817390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 2–5
- **Coordinates**: 26.16731, -98.07040
- **Phone**: (956)464-1995

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 299
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.3%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 65.0% proficient — 540 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 32.0% proficient, 11.7% advanced — 540 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 64.7% proficient — 232 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 81.6% proficient — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 55.6% proficient — 81 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 57.3% proficient — 75 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 30.2% proficient, 8.6% advanced — 232 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 42.1% proficient, 7.9% advanced — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 30.9% proficient, 11.1% advanced — 81 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 17.3% proficient, 6.7% advanced — 75 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 69.8% proficient — 232 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 72.4% proficient — 76 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 69.1% proficient — 81 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 68.0% proficient — 75 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 36.6% proficient, 16.4% advanced — 232 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 35.5% proficient, 13.2% advanced — 76 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 37.0% proficient, 16.0% advanced — 81 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 37.3% proficient, 20.0% advanced — 75 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 51.3% proficient — 76 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 51.3% proficient — 76 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.9% (76 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 29.8% (85 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 99.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 37 students
- **English Learners**: 49.5% — 141 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,189,955
- **Federal share**: 28.0%
- **State share**: 58.9%
- **Local share**: 13.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,047,010

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $30,543
- **Poverty rate**: 33.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 5.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $777
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.9 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.57 miles (LAGUNA PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF DONNA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1134 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **M RIVAS PRI DISCOVERY ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)
- **IDEA COLLEGE PREP** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)
- **IDEA ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)
- **A M OCHOA EL** — 1.1 mi away, 0.66% (this school: 1.05%)
- **LE NOIR EL** — 1.2 mi away, 0.67% (this school: 1.05%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/j-w-caceres-discovery-int-academy-donna/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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