# WAELDER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `484431005063`
- **School name**: WAELDER SCHOOL
- **Location**: WAELDER, TX 78959
- **Address**: 201 US HWY 90 W
- **District**: WAELDER ISD (LEAID `4844310`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Coordinates**: 29.69553, -97.30161
- **Phone**: (830)239-5602

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 302
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 80

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 88.9% proficient — 27 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 29.6% proficient, 3.7% advanced — 27 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 68.1% proficient — 407 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 32.2% proficient, 6.9% advanced — 407 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 96.0% proficient — 25 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 60.0% proficient, 8.0% advanced — 25 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 72.4% proficient — 29 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 37.9% proficient, 10.3% advanced — 29 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 80.8% proficient — 26 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 53.8% proficient, 0.0% advanced — 26 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 65.7% proficient — 134 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 72.7% proficient — 11 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 55.6% proficient — 18 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 66.7% proficient — 18 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 73.9% proficient — 23 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 15.4% proficient — 13 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 50.0% proficient — 14 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 100.0% (cohort of 20)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 11

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.5% (73 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.4% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 30
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 4.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 81.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 3.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 41 students
- **English Learners**: 28.6% — 85 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,585
- **Federal share**: $415
- **State + local share**: $11,170
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 317
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,629,508
- **Federal share**: 22.7%
- **State share**: 29.8%
- **Local share**: 47.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,940,984

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,438
- **Poverty rate**: 11.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $885
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 63.6 miles (ELDORADO CHEMICAL CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 24.94 miles (MARHIL SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF WAELDER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **FLATONIA EL** — 11.9 mi away, 1.27% (this school: 2.36%)
- **FLATONIA SECONDARY** — 11.9 mi away, 1.47% (this school: 2.36%)
- **MOULTON H S** — 12.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.36%)
- **MOULTON EL** — 12.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.36%)
- **WHISPERING HILLS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER** — 14.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.36%)

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