# PONDEROSA EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `484122004718`
- **School name**: PONDEROSA EL
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77090
- **Address**: 17202 BUTTE CREEK RD
- **District**: SPRING ISD (LEAID `4841220`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 30.01561, -95.45862
- **Phone**: (281)891-8180

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 740
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 56.9% proficient — 689 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 31.1% proficient, 9.0% advanced — 689 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 54.2% proficient — 297 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 64.9% proficient — 97 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 54.2% proficient — 96 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 44.2% proficient — 104 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 29.0% proficient, 8.4% advanced — 297 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 38.1% proficient, 11.3% advanced — 97 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 27.1% proficient, 10.4% advanced — 96 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 22.1% proficient, 3.8% advanced — 104 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 60.1% proficient — 296 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 78.4% proficient — 97 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 56.8% proficient — 95 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 46.2% proficient — 104 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 33.4% proficient, 10.1% advanced — 296 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 43.3% proficient, 10.3% advanced — 97 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 32.7% (253 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.5% (63 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 3.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 55.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.7%
- **Asian**: 31.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.8% — 80 students
- **English Learners**: 41.6% — 307 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,412
- **Federal share**: $1,611
- **State + local share**: $7,801
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 744
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,322,244
- **Federal share**: 20.7%
- **State share**: 35.1%
- **Local share**: 44.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,531,040

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,970
- **Poverty rate**: 5.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.9%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,138
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.3 miles (JONES ROAD GROUND WATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.99 miles (NORTH HOUSTON TIRE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF HOUSTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.9783 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WESTFIELD H S** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.81%)
- **ARROW ACADEMY - CHAMPIONS ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.81%)
- **BAMMEL MIDDLE** — 1.2 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 0.81%)
- **SST CHAMPIONS** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.81%)
- **PREMIER H S-HOUSTON (CHAMPIONS)** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.81%)

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