# UNIVERSITY H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `484428005059`
- **School name**: UNIVERSITY H S
- **Location**: WACO, TX 76706
- **Address**: 3201 S NEW RD
- **District**: WACO ISD (LEAID `4844280`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 31.50428, -97.13593
- **Phone**: (254)756-1843
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7894749 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_High_School_(Waco,_Texas)
- **Founded**: 1946

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,752
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 123
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: Not Rated
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Not Rated
  - overall_score:         .

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 75.6% proficient — 499 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 36.5% proficient, 15.4% advanced — 499 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 72.9% proficient — 2,754 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 38.5% proficient, 9.2% advanced — 2,754 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 75.0% proficient — 575 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 33.2% proficient, 8.0% advanced — 575 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 63.5% proficient — 701 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 34.5% proficient, 4.1% advanced — 701 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 64.8% proficient — 537 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 38.9% proficient, 2.2% advanced — 537 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 76.5% proficient — 553 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 37.4% proficient, 13.9% advanced — 553 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 64.1% proficient — 1,238 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 36.4% proficient, 3.3% advanced — 1,238 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 75.0% proficient — 575 tested
- **Science % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 33.2% proficient, 8.0% advanced — 575 tested
- **Social Studies % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 93.0% proficient — 388 tested
- **Social Studies % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 54.1% proficient, 22.9% advanced — 388 tested
- **US History (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 93.0% proficient — 388 tested
- **US History (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 54.1% proficient, 22.9% advanced — 388 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 88.7% (cohort of 379)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 60

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.8% (508 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (36 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.6% (80 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 27.8% (487 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 74.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 17.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.7% — 134 students
- **English Learners**: 15.3% — 267 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 75 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,503
- **Federal share**: $2,141
- **State + local share**: $12,362
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 17
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,894,434
- **Federal share**: 19.5%
- **State share**: 33.9%
- **Local share**: 46.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,665,767

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $42,804
- **Poverty rate**: 32.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.3%
- **Unemployment**: 0.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,131
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 36.0 miles (ROCKWOOL INDUSTRIES INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 36
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.78 miles (HERITAGE SQUARE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF WACO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - WACO** — 1.7 mi away, 0.33% (this school: 2.06%)
- **ROBINSON EL** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.06%)
- **ROBINSON PRI** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.06%)
- **BELL'S HILL EL** — 2.3 mi away, 1.79% (this school: 2.06%)
- **ROBINSON J H** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.06%)

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