# SAM FORDYCE EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482613009306`
- **School name**: SAM FORDYCE EL
- **Location**: SULLIVAN CITY, TX 78595
- **Address**: 801 FM 886
- **District**: LA JOYA ISD (LEAID `4826130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.26673, -98.55360
- **Phone**: (956)323-2490

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 356
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: B
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 89

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 76.3% proficient — 375 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 54.7% proficient, 27.7% advanced — 375 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 81.8% proficient — 159 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 80.7% proficient — 57 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 73.3% proficient — 60 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 95.2% proficient — 42 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 65.4% proficient, 32.7% advanced — 159 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 57.9% proficient, 21.1% advanced — 57 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 60.0% proficient, 25.0% advanced — 60 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 83.3% proficient, 59.5% advanced — 42 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.4% proficient — 159 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 68.4% proficient — 57 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 75.0% proficient — 60 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 92.9% proficient — 42 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 54.1% proficient, 28.3% advanced — 159 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 43.9% proficient, 12.3% advanced — 57 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.0% (46 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.3% (73 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**: 100.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.6% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 49.0% — 220 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,011
- **Federal share**: $1,179
- **State + local share**: $9,832
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 429
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,988,122
- **Federal share**: 31.6%
- **State share**: 58.1%
- **Local share**: 10.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,756,073

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $41,975
- **Poverty rate**: 32.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $599
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 30.9 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 18.08 miles (FORDYCE PROPERTY TRACT II)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 14.0758 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.5 miles

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