# MERKEL H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483034003396`
- **School name**: MERKEL H S
- **Location**: MERKEL, TX 79536
- **Address**: 2000 S 7TH ST
- **District**: MERKEL ISD (LEAID `4830340`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.46560, -100.02509
- **Phone**: (325)928-4667
- **Wikidata QID**: Q28230286 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkel_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 281
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 82

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 65.3% proficient — 98 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 22.4% proficient, 10.2% advanced — 98 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 75.2% proficient — 496 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 42.9% proficient, 11.5% advanced — 496 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 82.9% proficient — 82 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 42.7% proficient, 9.8% advanced — 82 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 66.4% proficient — 113 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 46.0% proficient, 11.5% advanced — 113 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 70.9% proficient — 103 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 48.5% proficient, 2.9% advanced — 103 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.0% proficient — 100 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 23.0% proficient, 10.0% advanced — 100 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.5% proficient — 216 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.2% proficient, 7.4% advanced — 216 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 100.0% (cohort of 91)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 88

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.9% (63 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.4% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.7% (64 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 30
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 68.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 48.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.8% — 32 students
- **English Learners**: 0.7% — 2 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,204
- **Federal share**: $581
- **State + local share**: $11,622
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 307
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,534,499
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 51.4%
- **Local share**: 35.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,045,998

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,375
- **Poverty rate**: 15.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.7%
- **Unemployment**: 1.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,038
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 125.9 miles (WEST COUNTY ROAD 112 GROUND WATER)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.50 miles (FORMER LOCKER PLANT MERKEL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERKEL
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MERKEL EL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 1.36%)
- **MERKEL MIDDLE** — 0.5 mi away, 0.83% (this school: 1.36%)
- **TRENT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT** — 6.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.36%)
- **DYESS EL** — 12.7 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 1.36%)
- **AUSTIN EL** — 15.0 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 1.36%)

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