# PALO ALTO MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482566005918`
- **School name**: PALO ALTO MIDDLE
- **Location**: KILLEEN, TX 76549
- **Address**: 2301 W ELMS RD
- **District**: KILLEEN ISD (LEAID `4825660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 31.09233, -97.76954
- **Phone**: (254)336-1200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 781
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - academic_growth: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - overall: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - overall_score: 59
  - support_label: Comprehensive Identified

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 96.3% proficient — 27 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 88.9% proficient, 44.4% advanced — 27 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 57.3% proficient — 1,772 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 23.5% proficient, 4.8% advanced — 1,772 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 57.5% proficient — 666 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 56.2% proficient — 192 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 52.0% proficient — 244 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 60.1% proficient — 203 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 21.9% proficient, 5.6% advanced — 666 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 19.3% proficient, 3.1% advanced — 192 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 18.9% proficient, 3.7% advanced — 244 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 19.2% proficient, 4.9% advanced — 203 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 64.9% proficient — 672 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 70.9% proficient — 220 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 63.2% proficient — 247 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 60.5% proficient — 205 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 29.0% proficient, 5.7% advanced — 672 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 34.5% proficient, 7.7% advanced — 220 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 23.9% proficient, 3.2% advanced — 247 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 29.3% proficient, 6.3% advanced — 205 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 42.3% (366 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.3% (131 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 59
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.7%
- **Asian**: 47.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 11.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.4%
- **Two or more races**: 6.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.0% — 167 students
- **English Learners**: 13.7% — 104 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 60 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,299
- **Federal share**: $1,072
- **State + local share**: $10,227
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 705
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,557,586
- **Federal share**: 25.7%
- **State share**: 54.7%
- **Local share**: 19.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,135,249

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,051
- **Poverty rate**: 11.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.9%
- **Unemployment**: 13.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,168
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.8 miles (ROCKWOOL INDUSTRIES INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.63 miles (COPPERAS COVE TREATMENT PLANT NO 1)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF KILLEEN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-01-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MAXDALE EL** — 0.6 mi away, 1.12% (this school: 1.45%)
- **REECES CREEK EL** — 1.5 mi away, 1.27% (this school: 1.45%)
- **ROY J SMITH MIDDLE** — 1.5 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 1.45%)
- **IDUMA EL** — 1.8 mi away, 1.36% (this school: 1.45%)
- **ROBERT M SHOEMAKER H S** — 1.8 mi away, 1.33% (this school: 1.45%)

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