# MICHAEL E FOSSUM MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482967011515`
- **School name**: MICHAEL E FOSSUM MIDDLE
- **Location**: MCALLEN, TX 78504
- **Address**: 7800 N WARE RD
- **District**: MCALLEN ISD (LEAID `4829670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.27614, -98.24709
- **Phone**: (956)971-1105

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 791
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: A
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 94

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 76 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 98.7% proficient, 94.7% advanced — 76 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 85.7% proficient — 2,024 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 60.7% proficient, 32.2% advanced — 2,024 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 85.1% proficient — 757 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 87.9% proficient — 232 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 75.8% proficient — 240 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 87.1% proficient — 209 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 58.1% proficient, 31.6% advanced — 757 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 63.4% proficient, 29.7% advanced — 232 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 51.7% proficient, 24.2% advanced — 240 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 45.0% proficient, 19.1% advanced — 209 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 91.0% proficient — 755 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 91.8% proficient — 255 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 92.3% proficient — 248 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 88.9% proficient — 252 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.4% (40 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.9% (89 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 5
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 94.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 63.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 111 students
- **English Learners**: 26.8% — 219 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 42 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,375
- **Federal share**: $563
- **State + local share**: $8,813
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 808
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,351,053
- **Federal share**: 34.8%
- **State share**: 35.5%
- **Local share**: 29.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,087,751

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $81,806
- **Poverty rate**: 1.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,167
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.1 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.22 miles (BICENTENNIAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCALLEN PUBLIC UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 14.0758 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.4 miles

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