# CARSON EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481650008962`
- **School name**: CARSON EL
- **Location**: DECATUR, TX 76234
- **Address**: 2100 BUSINESS 81/287 S
- **District**: DECATUR ISD (LEAID `4816500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 33.21578, -97.57087
- **Phone**: (940)393-7500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 489
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.3%

## 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: 78

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 70.4% proficient — 604 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 36.1% proficient, 11.6% advanced — 604 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 62.8% proficient — 253 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 63.3% proficient — 98 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 69.7% proficient — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 55.7% proficient — 79 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 34.4% proficient, 11.5% advanced — 253 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 24.5% proficient, 4.1% advanced — 98 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 43.4% proficient, 13.2% advanced — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 38.0% proficient, 19.0% advanced — 79 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.9% proficient — 253 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 86.7% proficient — 98 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 80.3% proficient — 76 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 64.6% proficient — 79 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 43.1% proficient, 14.2% advanced — 253 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 45.9% proficient, 17.3% advanced — 98 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (41 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 3.6% (17 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 66.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 41.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.6% — 93 students
- **English Learners**: 6.1% — 29 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,155
- **Federal share**: $855
- **State + local share**: $9,300
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 392
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,376,106
- **Federal share**: 12.8%
- **State share**: 19.7%
- **Local share**: 67.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,494,192

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $66,500
- **Poverty rate**: 9.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $741
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.0 miles (SANDY BEACH ROAD GROUND WATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 18.43 miles (4TH AND GULF WRECKING YARD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF DECATUR WATER PLANT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 20
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 9
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-11

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