# WESTER EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482850010935`
- **School name**: WESTER EL
- **Location**: LUBBOCK, TX 79414
- **Address**: 4602 CHICAGO AVE
- **District**: LUBBOCK ISD (LEAID `4828500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 33.55175, -101.93198
- **Phone**: (806)219-7100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 359
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 90
  - support_label: Comprehensive Progress

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 76.0% proficient — 296 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 47.0% proficient, 14.2% advanced — 296 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 74.6% proficient — 130 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 91.7% proficient — 36 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 67.4% proficient — 46 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 68.8% proficient — 48 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 52.3% proficient, 15.4% advanced — 130 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 69.4% proficient, 25.0% advanced — 36 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 47.8% proficient, 6.5% advanced — 46 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 43.8% proficient, 16.7% advanced — 48 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 80.0% proficient — 130 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 77.8% proficient — 36 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 80.4% proficient — 46 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 81.2% proficient — 48 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 46.9% proficient, 16.2% advanced — 130 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 50.0% proficient, 16.7% advanced — 36 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.1% (112 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.9% (35 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 55.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 23.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.4% — 45 students
- **English Learners**: 2.8% — 11 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,142
- **Federal share**: $1,574
- **State + local share**: $7,567
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 425
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,826,533
- **Federal share**: 22.1%
- **State share**: 35.6%
- **Local share**: 42.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,123,271

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,192
- **Poverty rate**: 20.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,067
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 38.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.5 miles (STATE ROAD 114 GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.64 miles (POWER PLANT GARAGE AREA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LUBBOCK PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.61788 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LUBBOCK** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.27%)
- **WILLIAMS EL** — 1.2 mi away, 1.25% (this school: 1.27%)
- **WESTWIND EL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.27%)
- **COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.27%)
- **WHITESIDE EL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.27%)

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