# STERLING H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482364002592`
- **School name**: STERLING H S
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77048
- **Address**: 11625 MARTINDALE RD
- **District**: HOUSTON ISD (LEAID `4823640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.63509, -95.32143
- **Phone**: (713)991-0510
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7611419 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_High_School_(Houston)
- **Founded**: 1965

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,146
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 87
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 57.2% proficient — 463 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 16.8% proficient, 7.1% advanced — 463 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 62.5% proficient — 2,365 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 27.7% proficient, 8.5% advanced — 2,365 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 68.9% proficient — 457 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 24.1% proficient, 8.5% advanced — 457 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 51.7% proficient — 540 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 27.6% proficient, 5.6% advanced — 540 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 52.4% proficient — 510 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 24.3% proficient, 1.2% advanced — 510 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 57.7% proficient — 492 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 17.5% proficient, 6.7% advanced — 492 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 52.0% proficient — 1,050 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 26.0% proficient, 3.4% advanced — 1,050 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.9% proficient — 457 tested
- **Science % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 24.1% proficient, 8.5% advanced — 457 tested
- **Social Studies % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 91.0% proficient — 366 tested
- **Social Studies % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 51.1% proficient, 25.7% advanced — 366 tested
- **US History (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 91.0% proficient — 366 tested
- **US History (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 51.1% proficient, 25.7% advanced — 366 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 83.4% (cohort of 355)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 426

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 37.6% (619 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.0% (40 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.2% (97 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 43.3% (580 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 49.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 48.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.0% — 241 students
- **English Learners**: 28.4% — 381 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 101 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 46 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,922
- **Federal share**: $2,307
- **State + local share**: $7,615
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,483
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,123,680
- **Federal share**: 23.2%
- **State share**: 8.0%
- **Local share**: 68.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,523,039

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $61,250
- **Poverty rate**: 24.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.8%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,468
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 34.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.6 miles (GENEVA INDUSTRIES FUHRMANN ENERGY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 53
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.40 miles (5900 SELINSKY)

### 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**: 10.2192 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **THOMAS MIDDLE** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.98%)
- **ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM EL** — 1.0 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 2.98%)
- **ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.98%)
- **FROST EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.98%)
- **CODWELL EL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.98%)

### graduation rate
- **THE PRO-VISION ACADEMY** — 2.7 mi away, 84.5% (this school: 84%)
- **JONES FUTURES ACADEMY** — 3.0 mi away, 92% (this school: 84%)
- **GLENDA DAWSON H S** — 4.6 mi away, 98% (this school: 84%)
- **DOBIE H S** — 5.2 mi away, 90% (this school: 84%)
- **MILBY H S** — 5.9 mi away, 95% (this school: 84%)

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

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