# STERLING H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482115002122`
- **School name**: STERLING H S
- **Location**: BAYTOWN, TX 77521
- **Address**: 300 W BAKER RD
- **District**: GOOSE CREEK CISD (LEAID `4821150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.77113, -94.96944
- **Phone**: (281)420-4500
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7611417 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_High_School_(Baytown,_Texas)
- **Founded**: 1966

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,150
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 129
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: C
  - academic_growth: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 77
  - support_label: Targeted Support

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 80.1% proficient — 487 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 41.1% proficient, 15.6% advanced — 487 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 80.0% proficient — 3,066 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 52.6% proficient, 16.4% advanced — 3,066 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 91.4% proficient — 614 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 60.3% proficient, 20.5% advanced — 614 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 71.6% proficient — 758 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 46.7% proficient, 8.7% advanced — 758 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 69.6% proficient — 684 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 47.4% proficient, 5.6% advanced — 684 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 81.5% proficient — 551 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.2% proficient, 14.2% advanced — 551 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 70.7% proficient — 1,442 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.0% proficient, 7.2% advanced — 1,442 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 57.0% proficient
- **School Progress (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 96.4% (cohort of 447)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 31

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 34.1% (698 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (43 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 28.9% (616 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 167
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 58.4%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 15.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 22.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 71.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.8% — 229 students
- **English Learners**: 9.3% — 197 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 111 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 50 students
- **Autism**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,735
- **Federal share**: $994
- **State + local share**: $9,741
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,232
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,009,997
- **Federal share**: 15.1%
- **State share**: 29.2%
- **Local share**: 55.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,849,339

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,875
- **Poverty rate**: 12.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.7%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,357
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.8 miles (SAN JACINTO RIVER WASTE PITS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 40
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.98 miles (12895 GREENS BAYOU)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF BAYTOWN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2021-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.0059 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **STUART CAREER TECH H S** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.61%)
- **LAMAR EL** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.61%)
- **GENTRY J H** — 2.3 mi away, 0.22% (this school: 0.61%)
- **JAMES BOWIE EL** — 2.3 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 0.61%)
- **STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.61%)

### graduation rate
- **BARBERS HILL H S** — 8.6 mi away, 98% (this school: 96%)

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