# YOUNG WOMEN'S STEAM ACADEMY AT BALCH SPRINGS MIDDL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481623012835`
- **School name**: YOUNG WOMEN'S STEAM ACADEMY AT BALCH SPRINGS MIDDL
- **Location**: BALCH SPRINGS, TX 75180
- **Address**: 710 CHEYENNE RD
- **District**: DALLAS ISD (LEAID `4816230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.72589, -96.63816
- **Phone**: (972)892-5800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 751
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 87

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 133 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 93.2% proficient, 68.4% advanced — 133 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 74.2% proficient — 2,211 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 45.6% proficient, 17.5% advanced — 2,211 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 99.2% proficient — 133 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 91.0% proficient, 18.8% advanced — 133 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 79.3% proficient — 803 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 80.8% proficient — 292 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 49.0% proficient — 145 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 84.5% proficient — 233 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 51.2% proficient, 23.7% advanced — 803 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 54.8% proficient, 18.2% advanced — 292 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 13.1% proficient, 4.8% advanced — 145 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 46.4% proficient, 16.7% advanced — 233 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 76.7% proficient — 804 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 69.7% proficient — 175 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 31.1% (353 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.8% (152 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 82.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 14.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 96 students
- **English Learners**: 83.1% — 639 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 42 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,129,543
- **Federal share**: 19.6%
- **State share**: 8.0%
- **Local share**: 72.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,009,174

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $56,995
- **Poverty rate**: 15.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $732
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.1 miles (LANE PLATING WORKS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 27
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.62 miles (VACANT COMMUNITY CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF BALCH SPRINGS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-06-30

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1585 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.9 miles

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/young-women-s-steam-academy-at-balch-springs-middl-balch-springs/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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