# VELA MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481168000426`
- **School name**: VELA MIDDLE
- **Location**: BROWNSVILLE, TX 78521
- **Address**: 4905 PAREDES LINE RD
- **District**: BROWNSVILLE ISD (LEAID `4811680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 25.97568, -97.48578
- **Phone**: (956)548-7770

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 658
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.8%

## 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: 86

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 96.0% proficient — 50 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 80.0% proficient, 54.0% advanced — 50 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 75.3% proficient — 1,692 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 48.1% proficient, 20.9% advanced — 1,692 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 56 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 94.6% proficient, 46.4% advanced — 56 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 70.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 56 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient, 57.1% advanced — 56 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.2% proficient — 608 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 67.5% proficient — 243 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 65.0% proficient — 120 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 79.5% proficient — 195 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 40.6% proficient, 14.0% advanced — 608 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 43.6% proficient, 12.8% advanced — 243 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 30.8% proficient, 5.0% advanced — 120 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 32.8% proficient, 10.8% advanced — 195 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.2% (23 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.6% (94 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 98.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 25.0% — 150 students
- **English Learners**: 25.0% — 150 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 73 students
- **Autism**: 27 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,688
- **Federal share**: $930
- **State + local share**: $10,757
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 752
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,217,228
- **Federal share**: 30.3%
- **State share**: 55.9%
- **Local share**: 13.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,012,718

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $37,344
- **Poverty rate**: 34.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 3.5%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $772
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 38.5 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.27 miles (RAIL LINE TO PALO ALTO PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BROWNSVILLE PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2851 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

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