# LEE H MEANS EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482253012048`
- **School name**: LEE H MEANS EL
- **Location**: HARLINGEN, TX 78550
- **Address**: 1204 E LOOP 499
- **District**: HARLINGEN CISD (LEAID `4822530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.22493, -97.68402
- **Phone**: (956)427-3377

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 730
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 94

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 88.0% proficient — 739 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 65.8% proficient, 35.7% advanced — 739 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 87.4% proficient — 318 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 90.3% proficient — 103 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 82.7% proficient — 104 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 89.2% proficient — 111 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 67.6% proficient, 33.3% advanced — 318 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 73.8% proficient, 33.0% advanced — 103 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 62.5% proficient, 32.7% advanced — 104 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 66.7% proficient, 34.2% advanced — 111 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 88.7% proficient — 318 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 94.2% proficient — 103 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 88.5% proficient — 104 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 83.8% proficient — 111 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 66.7% proficient, 37.7% advanced — 318 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 78.6% proficient, 48.5% advanced — 103 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.1% (69 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.6% (47 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**: 90.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.0% — 64 students
- **English Learners**: 21.9% — 156 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,792
- **Federal share**: $1,356
- **State + local share**: $7,436
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 719
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,885,954
- **Federal share**: 25.6%
- **State share**: 52.6%
- **Local share**: 21.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,190,703

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,344
- **Poverty rate**: 26.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $909
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.1 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.32 miles (TEXACO BUILDING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HARLINGEN WATER WORKS SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-11-01

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