# THOMAS J RUSK EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483209010976`
- **School name**: THOMAS J RUSK EL
- **Location**: NACOGDOCHES, TX 75961
- **Address**: 411 N MOUND ST
- **District**: NACOGDOCHES ISD (LEAID `4832090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 31.60602, -94.65149
- **Phone**: (936)569-3100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 422
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 69.0% proficient — 564 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 36.0% proficient, 13.8% advanced — 564 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 66.0% proficient — 244 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 89.5% proficient — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 39.2% proficient — 74 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 68.1% proficient — 94 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 36.1% proficient, 14.8% advanced — 244 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 56.6% proficient, 27.6% advanced — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 20.3% proficient, 5.4% advanced — 74 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 31.9% proficient, 11.7% advanced — 94 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.8% proficient — 244 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 86.8% proficient — 76 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 68.9% proficient — 74 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 67.0% proficient — 94 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 37.3% proficient, 13.9% advanced — 244 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 52.6% proficient, 28.9% advanced — 76 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 39.9% (214 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.1% (33 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 25
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 55.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 29.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 88.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.3% — 62 students
- **English Learners**: 44.2% — 206 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,591
- **Federal share**: $1,436
- **State + local share**: $7,155
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 583
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,098,933
- **Federal share**: 27.7%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 31.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,320,176

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $33,713
- **Poverty rate**: 38.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.3%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $992
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 57.9 miles (GARLAND CREOSOTING)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 31.98 miles (RUSK OLD SCHOOL SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF NACOGDOCHES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 16
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-02-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **MCMICHAEL MIDDLE** — 2.4 mi away, 0.22% (this school: 0.64%)
- **NACOGDOCHES H S** — 3.1 mi away, 0.63% (this school: 0.64%)
- **NACOGDOCHES COUNTY DAEP COOP** — 3.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **CENTRAL HEIGHTS EL** — 7.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)

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