# ZAPATA SOUTH EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `484671009447`
- **School name**: ZAPATA SOUTH EL
- **Location**: ZAPATA, TX 78076
- **Address**: 500 DELMAR ST
- **District**: ZAPATA COUNTY ISD (LEAID `4846710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.90354, -99.26092
- **Phone**: (956)765-4332

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 428
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 88

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 69.9% proficient — 532 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 44.5% proficient, 17.7% advanced — 532 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 70.5% proficient — 227 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 77.9% proficient — 77 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 75.0% proficient — 68 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 59.8% proficient — 82 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 46.3% proficient, 17.6% advanced — 227 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 50.6% proficient, 16.9% advanced — 77 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 60.3% proficient, 26.5% advanced — 68 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 30.5% proficient, 11.0% advanced — 82 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 73.7% proficient — 228 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 75.3% proficient — 77 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 78.3% proficient — 69 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 68.3% proficient — 82 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 49.1% proficient, 20.6% advanced — 228 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 55.8% proficient, 31.2% advanced — 77 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.9% (129 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.4% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.0% (31 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**: 99.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.4% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 31.4% — 139 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,829
- **Federal share**: $799
- **State + local share**: $9,030
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 587
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,394,889
- **Federal share**: 27.3%
- **State share**: 42.2%
- **Local share**: 30.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,977,183

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $40,486
- **Poverty rate**: 36.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.4%
- **Unemployment**: 0.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $635
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 33.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 90.9 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 42.59 miles (FORMER DICKINSON PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ZAPATA COUNTY WATERWORKS SWTP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-02

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ZAPATA NORTH EL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.39%)
- **ZAPATA MIDDLE** — 0.9 mi away, 1.6% (this school: 3.39%)
- **FIDEL AND ANDREA R VILLARREAL EL** — 1.4 mi away, 1.51% (this school: 3.39%)
- **ZAPATA H S** — 1.7 mi away, 1.59% (this school: 3.39%)
- **BENAVIDES EL** — 14.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.39%)

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