# PALESTINE J H

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483405003784`
- **School name**: PALESTINE J H
- **Location**: PALESTINE, TX 75801
- **Address**: 233 BEN MILAM DR
- **District**: PALESTINE ISD (LEAID `4834050`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 31.73723, -95.60291
- **Phone**: (903)731-8008

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 456
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 86

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.6% proficient — 1,433 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 38.8% proficient, 12.1% advanced — 1,433 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.8% proficient — 464 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 78.2% proficient — 252 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 64.2% proficient — 212 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 44.0% proficient, 12.7% advanced — 464 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 49.6% proficient, 16.7% advanced — 252 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 37.3% proficient, 8.0% advanced — 212 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.0% proficient — 466 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 71.0% proficient — 252 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 75.2% proficient — 214 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 43.1% proficient, 17.2% advanced — 466 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 42.5% proficient, 15.9% advanced — 252 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 43.9% proficient, 18.7% advanced — 214 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.5% (94 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 31.1% (137 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 36
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 46.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 22.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.4% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 20.9% — 92 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,650
- **Federal share**: $1,627
- **State + local share**: $8,023
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 519
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,312,407
- **Federal share**: 17.0%
- **State share**: 46.8%
- **Local share**: 36.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,069,325

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $42,350
- **Poverty rate**: 14.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.6%
- **Unemployment**: 9.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,054
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 71.4 miles (GARLAND CREOSOTING)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 26.93 miles (RUSK OLD SCHOOL SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PALESTINE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 15
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 12
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-02-16

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