# PALMER-LAAKSO EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482829007201`
- **School name**: PALMER-LAAKSO EL
- **Location**: SAN BENITO, TX 78586
- **Address**: 30515 FARM RD 1847
- **District**: LOS FRESNOS CISD (LEAID `4828290`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.11623, -97.47087
- **Phone**: (956)254-5121

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 582
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.4%

## 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: 97

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 85.8% proficient — 520 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 60.2% proficient, 28.7% advanced — 520 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 88.8% proficient — 224 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 95.9% proficient — 73 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 85.5% proficient — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 85.3% proficient — 75 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 62.9% proficient, 25.9% advanced — 224 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 63.0% proficient, 19.2% advanced — 73 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 63.2% proficient, 32.9% advanced — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 62.7% proficient, 25.3% advanced — 75 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 87.4% proficient — 223 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 82.2% proficient — 73 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 90.7% proficient — 75 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 89.3% proficient — 75 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 65.5% proficient, 36.3% advanced — 223 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 57.5% proficient, 28.8% advanced — 73 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.5% (83 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.4% (45 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 95.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 90 students
- **English Learners**: 19.0% — 115 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,883
- **Federal share**: $718
- **State + local share**: $9,164
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 554
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,491,743
- **Federal share**: 22.1%
- **State share**: 54.9%
- **Local share**: 23.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,183,100

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,917
- **Poverty rate**: 17.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.5%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 38.2 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.09 miles (LOS FRESNOS BUSINESS INCUBATOR)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SAN BENITO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2851 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LOS FRESNOS H S** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.99%)
- **LIBERTY MEMORIAL MIDDLE** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.99%)
- **LOPEZ-RIGGINS EL** — 3.0 mi away, 0.62% (this school: 0.99%)
- **LAURELES EL** — 3.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.99%)
- **LOS CUATES MIDDLE** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.99%)

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