# JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483486012589`
- **School name**: JAIME ESCALANTE MIDDLE
- **Location**: PHARR, TX 78577
- **Address**: 6123 S CAGE
- **District**: PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (LEAID `4834860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.13485, -98.19155
- **Phone**: (956)354-2670

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 554
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: B
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 87

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 97.6% proficient — 42 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 95.2% proficient, 45.2% advanced — 42 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 69.7% proficient — 1,385 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.3% proficient, 16.8% advanced — 1,385 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.1% proficient — 526 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 77.7% proficient — 139 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 52.3% proficient — 153 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 75.5% proficient — 192 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 39.0% proficient, 15.6% advanced — 526 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 39.6% proficient, 15.8% advanced — 139 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 26.1% proficient, 8.5% advanced — 153 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 36.5% proficient, 14.6% advanced — 192 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.7% proficient — 527 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 80.7% proficient — 166 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 66.3% proficient — 169 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 68.8% proficient — 192 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.8% (107 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.7% (52 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 98.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.4% — 77 students
- **English Learners**: 61.3% — 328 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,768
- **Federal share**: $2,961
- **State + local share**: $10,806
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 652
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,698,872
- **Federal share**: 29.3%
- **State share**: 54.7%
- **Local share**: 16.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,671,111

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $38,074
- **Poverty rate**: 36.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.4%
- **Unemployment**: 10.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $792
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.7 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.36 miles (FORMER HOSPITAL 512 S NEBRASKA AVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PHARR
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 14.0758 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.8 miles

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