# THORNTON MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481611004206`
- **School name**: THORNTON MIDDLE
- **Location**: KATY, TX 77449
- **Address**: 19802 KIETH HARROW BLVD
- **District**: CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD (LEAID `4816110`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.84844, -95.71613
- **Phone**: (281)856-1500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,424
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 92
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 81

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 155 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 88.4% proficient, 60.0% advanced — 155 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.7% proficient — 3,473 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.8% proficient, 14.8% advanced — 3,473 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.0% proficient — 1,275 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 66.7% proficient — 303 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 59.5% proficient — 437 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 65.8% proficient — 380 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 36.9% proficient, 13.6% advanced — 1,275 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 27.1% proficient, 4.3% advanced — 303 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 31.6% proficient, 7.3% advanced — 437 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 29.7% proficient, 9.2% advanced — 380 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.2% proficient — 1,282 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 81.7% proficient — 459 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 76.1% proficient — 440 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 73.1% proficient — 383 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.6% (322 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.6% (121 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 135
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 55.3%
- **Black/African American**: 4.2%
- **Asian**: 32.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.6% — 150 students
- **English Learners**: 11.5% — 163 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 73 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,121
- **Federal share**: $1,094
- **State + local share**: $7,028
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,844
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,692,425
- **Federal share**: 15.5%
- **State share**: 28.5%
- **Local share**: 56.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,678,349

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,296
- **Poverty rate**: 16.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.4%
- **Unemployment**: 10.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,655
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.0 miles (JONES ROAD GROUND WATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.69 miles (7777 DAIRY ASHFORD ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF KATY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-06-24

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.2435 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SHERIDAN EL** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **EMERY EL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **ROBINSON EL** — 1.1 mi away, 0.46% (this school: 0.64%)
- **JACK & SHARON RHOADS EL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **HEMMENWAY EL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)

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