# LIFE SCHOOL OAK CLIFF

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480005507849`
- **School name**: LIFE SCHOOL OAK CLIFF
- **Location**: DALLAS, TX 75224
- **Address**: 4400 S R L THORNTON FRWY
- **District**: LIFE SCHOOL (LEAID `4800055`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 32.69045, -96.82158
- **Phone**: (214)376-8200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,483
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 88
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: C
  - 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): 80.9% proficient — 141 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 39.0% proficient, 13.5% advanced — 141 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 60.2% proficient — 2,325 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 27.7% proficient, 4.9% advanced — 2,325 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 88.5% proficient — 130 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 44.6% proficient, 8.5% advanced — 130 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 66.7% proficient — 162 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 40.7% proficient, 2.5% advanced — 162 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 66.9% proficient — 133 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 42.1% proficient, 0.8% advanced — 133 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 54.6% proficient — 785 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 38.8% proficient — 98 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 52.6% proficient — 135 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 48.1% proficient — 106 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 58.1% proficient — 105 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 41.8% proficient — 91 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 50.6% proficient — 83 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 99.2% (cohort of 125)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 60

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.6% (301 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.1% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 4.1% (60 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 44
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 46.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 51.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 185 students
- **English Learners**: 19.7% — 291 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 77 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,195
- **Federal share**: $767
- **State + local share**: $9,428
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,539
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,279,057
- **Federal share**: 17.7%
- **State share**: 80.8%
- **Local share**: 1.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,338,251

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $37,226
- **Poverty rate**: 35.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.4%
- **Unemployment**: 19.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,276
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 39.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (LANE PLATING WORKS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 40
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.53 miles (CATELLUS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DALLAS WATER UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1585 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MARK TWAIN SCHOOL FOR THE TALENTED AND GIFTED** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)
- **ELEMENTARY' DISCIPLINARY ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PRG** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)
- **OAK CLIFF FAITH FAMILY ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)
- **BOUDE STOREY MIDDLE** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)
- **T G TERRY EL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.47%)

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