# PALO DURO H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480813000170`
- **School name**: PALO DURO H S
- **Location**: AMARILLO, TX 79107
- **Address**: 1400 N GRANT
- **District**: AMARILLO ISD (LEAID `4808130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.22850, -101.82443
- **Phone**: (806)326-2400
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7128518 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Duro_High_School
- **Founded**: 1955

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,949
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 133
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 85.7% proficient — 482 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 41.1% proficient, 14.1% advanced — 482 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.5% proficient — 2,969 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.1% proficient, 12.4% advanced — 2,969 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 86.0% proficient — 593 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 48.7% proficient, 17.5% advanced — 593 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 69.1% proficient — 745 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 45.2% proficient, 7.1% advanced — 745 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 68.3% proficient — 646 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 41.5% proficient, 3.1% advanced — 646 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 84.9% proficient — 577 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 42.3% proficient, 11.8% advanced — 577 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.7% proficient — 1,391 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 43.5% proficient, 5.2% advanced — 1,391 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 92.3% (cohort of 352)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.7% (856 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.6% (69 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.6% (69 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 33.5% (637 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 97
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 58.5%
- **Black/African American**: 12.0%
- **Asian**: 17.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.7% — 203 students
- **English Learners**: 22.1% — 420 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 85 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 41 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 28 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,137
- **Federal share**: $967
- **State + local share**: $8,170
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,993
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,712,337
- **Federal share**: 20.1%
- **State share**: 49.5%
- **Local share**: 30.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,443,239

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $33,170
- **Poverty rate**: 29.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $890
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.1 miles (PANTEX PLANT USDOE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 17.77 miles (110 N 23RD STREET FORMER TEXACO)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: AMARILLO MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: -0.945988 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **TRAVIS 6TH GRADE CAMPUS** — 1.2 mi away, 2.64% (this school: 3.63%)
- **GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.63%)
- **FOREST HILL EL** — 1.6 mi away, 3.57% (this school: 3.63%)
- **SANBORN EL** — 1.7 mi away, 3.55% (this school: 3.63%)
- **GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER EL ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 1.7% (this school: 3.63%)

### graduation rate
- **CAPROCK H S** — 3.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 85%)
- **TASCOSA H S** — 4.0 mi away, 88% (this school: 85%)
- **RIVER ROAD H S** — 5.5 mi away, 92% (this school: 85%)
- **AMARILLO H S** — 6.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 85%)
- **RANDALL H S** — 9.1 mi away, 97% (this school: 85%)

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

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