# MCGOWEN EL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/mcgowen-el-houston

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482364002495`
- **School name**: MCGOWEN EL
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77028
- **Address**: 6820 HOMESTEAD RD
- **District**: HOUSTON ISD (LEAID `4823640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.82053, -95.30048
- **Phone**: (713)636-6979

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 386
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.9%

## 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: B
  - 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)**: 70.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 59.7% proficient — 355 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 27.6% proficient, 4.5% advanced — 355 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 58.7% proficient — 150 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 71.4% proficient — 56 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 52.9% proficient — 51 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 48.8% proficient — 43 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 23.3% proficient, 3.3% advanced — 150 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 26.8% proficient, 3.6% advanced — 56 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 23.5% proficient, 3.9% advanced — 51 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 18.6% proficient, 2.3% advanced — 43 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 67.8% proficient — 149 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 69.1% proficient — 55 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 62.7% proficient — 51 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 72.1% proficient — 43 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 35.6% proficient, 6.7% advanced — 149 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 36.4% proficient, 3.6% advanced — 55 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.2% (110 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.4% (40 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 34.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 63.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 35 students
- **English Learners**: 25.9% — 91 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,983
- **Federal share**: $1,692
- **State + local share**: $7,291
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 452
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,123,680
- **Federal share**: 23.2%
- **State share**: 8.0%
- **Local share**: 68.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,523,039

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $36,609
- **Poverty rate**: 34.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.3%
- **Unemployment**: 12.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,077
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.1 miles (NORTH CAVALCADE STREET)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 97
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.51 miles (8601 PEACHTREET STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF HOUSTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.1104 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KASHMERE H S** — 0.9 mi away, 1.09% (this school: 1.99%)
- **COOK JR EL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.99%)
- **KASHMERE GARDENS EL** — 1.5 mi away, 1.51% (this school: 1.99%)
- **KEY MIDDLE** — 1.9 mi away, 1.44% (this school: 1.99%)
- **FOREST BROOK MIDDLE** — 2.1 mi away, 1.82% (this school: 1.99%)

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