# LAMAR ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482967021346`
- **School name**: LAMAR ACADEMY
- **Location**: MCALLEN, TX 78501
- **Address**: 1009 N 10TH ST
- **District**: MCALLEN ISD (LEAID `4829670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 26.21298, -98.22893
- **Phone**: (956)632-3222
- **Wikidata QID**: Q24040101 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Academy
- **Founded**: 2001

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 47
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 8
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 5.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 99

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 66.7% proficient — 6 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 33.3% proficient, 16.7% advanced — 6 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 79.5% proficient — 78 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 39.7% proficient, 2.6% advanced — 78 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 55.6% proficient — 9 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 55.6% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 9 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 89.5% proficient — 19 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 57.9% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 19 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.7% proficient — 9 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 33.3% proficient, 11.1% advanced — 9 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.6% proficient — 28 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 57.1% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 28 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 20.0% proficient — 5 tested
- **Science % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 0.0% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 5 tested
- **Social Studies % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 91.7% proficient — 36 tested
- **Social Studies % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 33.3% proficient, 2.8% advanced — 36 tested
- **Student Achievement (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **US History (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 91.7% proficient — 36 tested
- **US History (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 33.3% proficient, 2.8% advanced — 36 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 98.0% (cohort of 100)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 17

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 115.0% (107 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.1% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.0% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 59.6% (59 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 96.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.0% — 5 students
- **English Learners**: 23.2% — 23 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $51,880
- **Federal share**: $2,095
- **State + local share**: $49,785
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 117
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,351,053
- **Federal share**: 34.8%
- **State share**: 35.5%
- **Local share**: 29.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,087,751

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,922
- **Poverty rate**: 17.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 43.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,322
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.2 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.96 miles (BICENTENNIAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCALLEN PUBLIC UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 14.0758 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WILSON EL** — 0.2 mi away, 0.96% (this school: 12.12%)
- **HORIZON MONTESSORI - STEM ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.12%)
- **TRIUMPH PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS-MCALLEN** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.12%)
- **MEMORIAL H S** — 0.8 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 12.12%)
- **FIELDS EL** — 0.9 mi away, 0.66% (this school: 12.12%)

### graduation rate
- **MEMORIAL H S** — 0.8 mi away, 96% (this school: 92%)
- **MCALLEN H S** — 1.1 mi away, 96% (this school: 92%)
- **SHARYLAND H S** — 3.4 mi away, 98% (this school: 92%)
- **PSJA SOUTHWEST EARLY COLLEGE H S** — 4.7 mi away, 96% (this school: 92%)
- **VETERANS MEMORIAL H S** — 5.7 mi away, 95% (this school: 92%)

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