# JEFFERSON MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483540004001`
- **School name**: JEFFERSON MIDDLE
- **Location**: PORT ARTHUR, TX 77642
- **Address**: 2200 JEFFERSON DR
- **District**: PORT ARTHUR ISD (LEAID `4835400`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.92210, -93.91167
- **Phone**: (409)984-4860

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 857
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 62
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 80
  - 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): 100.0% proficient — 19 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient, 100.0% advanced — 19 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 61.0% proficient — 2,005 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 27.7% proficient, 8.7% advanced — 2,005 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 60.5% proficient — 762 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 68.5% proficient — 222 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 50.8% proficient — 256 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 60.4% proficient — 265 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 26.0% proficient, 8.1% advanced — 762 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 34.2% proficient, 5.0% advanced — 222 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 22.3% proficient, 7.4% advanced — 256 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 17.4% proficient, 4.9% advanced — 265 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.1% proficient — 761 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 75.1% proficient — 241 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 69.1% proficient — 256 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 54.9% proficient — 264 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 51.3% (473 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 9.4% (80 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 20.8% (176 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 20
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 56.8%
- **Black/African American**: 4.1%
- **Asian**: 33.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 84 students
- **English Learners**: 31.4% — 266 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,339
- **Federal share**: $1,393
- **State + local share**: $8,945
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 961
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,354,242
- **Federal share**: 20.9%
- **State share**: 26.2%
- **Local share**: 52.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,062,726

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $41,624
- **Poverty rate**: 29.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.1%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $761
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.7 miles (STAR LAKE CANAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 26
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.65 miles (330 RICHMOND STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PORT ARTHUR
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 9
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 9
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5314 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **TRAVIS EL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.89%)
- **WHEATLEY SCHOOL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.89%)
- **TYRRELL EL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.89%)
- **BOB HOPE SCHOOL - EL CAMPUS** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.89%)
- **LAKEVIEW EL** — 1.1 mi away, 0.87% (this school: 1.89%)

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