# PONDER J H

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483531011205`
- **School name**: PONDER J H
- **Location**: PONDER, TX 76259
- **Address**: 501 SHAFFNER ST
- **District**: PONDER ISD (LEAID `4835310`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.18475, -97.28918
- **Phone**: (940)479-8220

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 389
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: B
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: B
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 88

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 30 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient, 86.7% advanced — 30 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 84.3% proficient — 986 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 56.0% proficient, 21.5% advanced — 986 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 89.0% proficient — 364 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 93.9% proficient — 99 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 81.0% proficient — 121 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 90.4% proficient — 114 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 60.4% proficient, 24.2% advanced — 364 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 76.8% proficient, 31.3% advanced — 99 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 47.1% proficient, 9.1% advanced — 121 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 50.0% proficient, 17.5% advanced — 114 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 83.5% proficient — 364 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 88.4% proficient — 129 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 80.2% proficient — 121 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 81.6% proficient — 114 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.0% (35 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.3% (23 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 23
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 31.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 2.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 62.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 2.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.3% — 34 students
- **English Learners**: 12.3% — 45 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,639
- **Federal share**: $413
- **State + local share**: $8,226
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 374
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,285,082
- **Federal share**: 9.6%
- **State share**: 33.7%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,930,468

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $124,792
- **Poverty rate**: 4.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,239
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 22.4 miles (SANDY BEACH ROAD GROUND WATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.75 miles (4TH AND GULF WRECKING YARD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TOWN OF PONDER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-08-11

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.71152 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.9 miles

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