# JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482679005884`
- **School name**: JOAQUIN CIGARROA MIDDLE
- **Location**: LAREDO, TX 78046
- **Address**: 2600 PALO BLANCO ST
- **District**: LAREDO ISD (LEAID `4826790`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.47260, -99.46945
- **Phone**: (956)273-6100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,053
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 88
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 99.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 79
  - support_label: Targeted Support

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 19 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 94.7% proficient, 68.4% advanced — 19 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 67.4% proficient — 2,734 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 38.5% proficient, 14.3% advanced — 2,734 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 64.3% proficient — 1,025 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 79.7% proficient — 325 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 55.0% proficient — 340 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 56.9% proficient — 341 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 35.3% proficient, 10.3% advanced — 1,025 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 45.5% proficient, 12.0% advanced — 325 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 32.9% proficient, 7.9% advanced — 340 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 24.6% proficient, 7.9% advanced — 341 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.9% proficient — 1,024 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 82.5% proficient — 342 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 73.6% proficient — 341 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 59.5% proficient — 341 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (104 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 40.0% (426 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 99.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.4% — 153 students
- **English Learners**: 54.0% — 574 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 102 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 30 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,672
- **Federal share**: $1,178
- **State + local share**: $8,495
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,329
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,169,813
- **Federal share**: 29.9%
- **State share**: 58.0%
- **Local share**: 12.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,236,524

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $40,682
- **Poverty rate**: 31.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.3%
- **Unemployment**: 15.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,101
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 122.3 miles (BRINE SERVICE COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.16 miles (FORMER DICKINSON PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF LAREDO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 29
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-15

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.4271 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **DR LEO CIGARROA H S** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **H B ZACHRY EL** — 0.3 mi away, 0.35% (this school: 0.85%)
- **J KAWAS EL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **UNITED SOUTH MIDDLE** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)
- **SANTO NINO EL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.85%)

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