# WARD EL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/ward-el-abilene/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `480744002238`
- **School name**: WARD EL
- **Location**: ABILENE, TX 79606
- **Address**: 3750 PAINT BRUSH
- **District**: ABILENE ISD (LEAID `4807440`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 32.39934, -99.77118
- **Phone**: (325)690-3666

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 502
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 57.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: C
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 76

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 74.0% proficient — 554 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 44.0% proficient, 15.5% advanced — 554 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.8% proficient — 230 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 85.1% proficient — 94 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 72.3% proficient — 65 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 73.2% proficient — 71 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.4% proficient, 15.7% advanced — 230 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 43.6% proficient, 17.0% advanced — 94 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 53.8% proficient, 23.1% advanced — 65 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 46.5% proficient, 7.0% advanced — 71 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.8% proficient — 230 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 78.7% proficient — 94 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 75.4% proficient — 65 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 78.9% proficient — 71 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 50.0% proficient, 18.7% advanced — 230 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 48.9% proficient, 21.3% advanced — 94 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.3% (58 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.1% (29 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 12
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 31.3%
- **Black/African American**: 3.9%
- **Asian**: 10.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 48.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.3% — 58 students
- **English Learners**: 3.2% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $7,994
- **Federal share**: $1,036
- **State + local share**: $6,958
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 551
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,279,917
- **Federal share**: 27.2%
- **State share**: 40.5%
- **Local share**: 32.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,708,738

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,365
- **Poverty rate**: 19.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.8%
- **Unemployment**: 1.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,095
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 32.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 124.1 miles (CIRCLE COURT GROUND WATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.82 miles (LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL AISD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ABILENE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2021-02-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **AUSTIN EL** — 1.5 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 1.27%)
- **PREMIER H S OF ABILENE** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.27%)
- **WYLIE WEST EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.27%)
- **WYLIE H S** — 1.9 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 1.27%)
- **TAYLOR COUNTY LEARNING CENTER** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.27%)

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