# MERIDIANA EL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/meridiana-el-iowa-colony

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480809013503`
- **School name**: MERIDIANA EL
- **Location**: IOWA COLONY, TX 77583
- **Address**: 9815 MERIDIANA PKWY
- **District**: ALVIN ISD (LEAID `4808090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.44168, -95.41303
- **Phone**: (281)245-3078

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 794
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 92

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 83.1% proficient — 1,058 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 54.6% proficient, 21.0% advanced — 1,058 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 80.7% proficient — 457 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 100.0% proficient — 52 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 76.1% proficient — 92 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 79.9% proficient — 149 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 78.0% proficient — 164 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.5% proficient, 16.8% advanced — 457 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 67.3% proficient, 9.6% advanced — 52 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 34.8% proficient, 9.8% advanced — 92 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 50.3% proficient, 24.8% advanced — 149 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 45.7% proficient, 15.9% advanced — 164 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 86.0% proficient — 457 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 88.7% proficient — 142 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 85.9% proficient — 149 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 83.7% proficient — 166 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.8% (56 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (5 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 10
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 35.5%
- **Black/African American**: 4.7%
- **Asian**: 27.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 27.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.3% — 73 students
- **English Learners**: 5.5% — 43 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,469
- **Federal share**: $789
- **State + local share**: $7,680
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 797
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,722,592
- **Federal share**: 10.9%
- **State share**: 54.1%
- **Local share**: 35.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,679,331

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $127,361
- **Poverty rate**: 7.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,787
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.4 miles (SOL LYNN INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.34 miles (PEARLAND ASSAULT BASEBALL CLUB)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.8623 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BEL NAFEGAR SANCHEZ EL** — 2.3 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 0.51%)
- **HERITAGE ROSE EL** — 4.1 mi away, 0.42% (this school: 0.51%)
- **RODEO PALMS J H** — 4.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.51%)
- **DON JETER EL** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.51%)
- **SAVANNAH LAKES EL** — 5.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.51%)

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