# MACDONELL EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482679003022`
- **School name**: MACDONELL EL
- **Location**: LAREDO, TX 78040
- **Address**: 1606 BENAVIDES
- **District**: LAREDO ISD (LEAID `4826790`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.51250, -99.51190
- **Phone**: (956)273-4000

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 426
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.6%

## 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: A
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 85

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 62.9% proficient — 391 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 31.7% proficient, 10.7% advanced — 391 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.1% proficient — 168 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 61.8% proficient — 55 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 59.6% proficient — 57 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 76.8% proficient — 56 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 32.1% proficient, 9.5% advanced — 168 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 16.4% proficient, 1.8% advanced — 55 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 38.6% proficient, 19.3% advanced — 57 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 41.1% proficient, 7.1% advanced — 56 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 60.1% proficient — 168 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 60.0% proficient — 55 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 50.9% proficient — 57 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 69.6% proficient — 56 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 31.5% proficient, 13.7% advanced — 168 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 25.5% proficient, 10.9% advanced — 55 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.1% (61 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.9% (39 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**: 100.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 99.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.3% — 36 students
- **English Learners**: 71.7% — 352 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,892
- **Federal share**: $1,268
- **State + local share**: $9,624
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 513
### 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**: $31,881
- **Poverty rate**: 47.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $844
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 124.4 miles (BRINE SERVICE COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.33 miles (FORMER WAREHOUSE)

### 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**: 6.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CHRISTEN MIDDLE** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.63%)
- **MARTIN H S** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.63%)
- **BRUNI EL** — 0.6 mi away, 0.69% (this school: 1.63%)
- **LEYENDECKER EL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.63%)
- **DOVALINA EL** — 0.6 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 1.63%)

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