# THORNTON EL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/thornton-el-temple

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `484233004828`
- **School name**: THORNTON EL
- **Location**: TEMPLE, TX 76502
- **Address**: 2825 COTTONWOOD LN
- **District**: TEMPLE ISD (LEAID `4842330`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 31.07318, -97.38232
- **Phone**: (254)215-5700

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 763
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.1%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 64.9% proficient — 795 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 38.0% proficient, 14.5% advanced — 795 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 65.9% proficient — 343 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 70.0% proficient — 110 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 61.9% proficient — 118 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 66.1% proficient — 115 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.1% proficient, 15.7% advanced — 343 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 35.5% proficient, 12.7% advanced — 110 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 43.2% proficient, 12.7% advanced — 118 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 44.3% proficient, 21.7% advanced — 115 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.7% proficient — 342 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 68.2% proficient — 110 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 66.9% proficient — 118 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 71.1% proficient — 114 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 40.1% proficient, 15.2% advanced — 342 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 34.5% proficient, 16.4% advanced — 110 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 36.4% proficient, 11.9% advanced — 118 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 49.1% proficient, 17.5% advanced — 114 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 50.0% proficient — 110 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 50.0% proficient — 110 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.9% (166 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.2% (53 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 15
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 53.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 21.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 18.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 74.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.1% — 38 students
- **English Learners**: 29.3% — 217 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $7,656
- **Federal share**: $1,141
- **State + local share**: $6,516
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 736
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,037,300
- **Federal share**: 19.7%
- **State share**: 37.6%
- **Local share**: 42.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,901,243

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $70,250
- **Poverty rate**: 11.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,257
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.6 miles (ROCKWOOL INDUSTRIES INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 30
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.35 miles (MARTHA S KITCHEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF TEMPLE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 103
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.70113 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BONHAM MIDDLE** — 1.3 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 0.54%)
- **WESTERN HILLS EL** — 1.9 mi away, 0.45% (this school: 0.54%)
- **RAYE-ALLEN EL** — 2.2 mi away, 0.32% (this school: 0.54%)
- **FRED W EDWARDS ACADEMY AEC** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.54%)
- **KENNEDY-POWELL EL** — 3.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.54%)

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