# THOMAS J RUSK MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481623001347`
- **School name**: THOMAS J RUSK MIDDLE
- **Location**: DALLAS, TX 75235
- **Address**: 2929 INWOOD RD
- **District**: DALLAS ISD (LEAID `4816230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.82484, -96.83352
- **Phone**: (972)925-2000

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 373
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.1%

## 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: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 82

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 96.8% proficient — 62 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 85.5% proficient, 45.2% advanced — 62 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 72.9% proficient — 1,083 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 34.4% proficient, 8.7% advanced — 1,083 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.2% proficient — 377 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 77.5% proficient — 218 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 67.0% proficient — 94 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 40.3% proficient, 13.3% advanced — 377 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 34.4% proficient, 7.3% advanced — 218 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 22.3% proficient, 3.2% advanced — 94 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 69.9% proficient — 376 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 80.6% proficient — 170 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 60.4% proficient — 111 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 62.1% proficient — 95 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 34.8% proficient, 6.9% advanced — 376 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 42.9% proficient, 7.6% advanced — 170 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 39.3% (226 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.6% (40 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.0% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.1% (61 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 71.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 24.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.3% — 88 students
- **English Learners**: 87.8% — 332 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,424
- **Federal share**: $1,683
- **State + local share**: $9,741
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 648
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,129,543
- **Federal share**: 19.6%
- **State share**: 8.0%
- **Local share**: 72.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,009,174

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,398
- **Poverty rate**: 15.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 83.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,742
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.0 miles (RSR CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 13
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 119
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.81 miles (2306 MOTOR STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DALLAS WATER UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.23604 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MAPLE LAWN EL** — 0.3 mi away, 5.86% (this school: 10.58%)
- **MONTESSORI ACADEMY AT ONESIMO HERNANDEZ EL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.58%)
- **CALLIER CENTER PRE-SCHOOL DEAF (0-5)** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.58%)
- **ESPERANZA MEDRANO EL** — 1.2 mi away, 3.08% (this school: 10.58%)
- **K B POLK CENTER FOR ACADEMICALLY TALENTED & GIFTED** — 1.3 mi away, 0.76% (this school: 10.58%)

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