# FOSTER EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482364002459`
- **School name**: FOSTER EL
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77021
- **Address**: 3919 WARD ST
- **District**: HOUSTON ISD (LEAID `4823640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.69230, -95.36089
- **Phone**: (713)746-8260

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 334
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 100.0%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.9% proficient — 299 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 53.2% proficient, 14.4% advanced — 299 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 78.0% proficient — 132 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 94.3% proficient — 35 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 71.1% proficient — 45 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 73.1% proficient — 52 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 57.6% proficient, 15.2% advanced — 132 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 65.7% proficient, 8.6% advanced — 35 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 46.7% proficient, 8.9% advanced — 45 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 61.5% proficient, 25.0% advanced — 52 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 74.2% proficient — 132 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 91.4% proficient — 35 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 75.6% proficient — 45 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 61.5% proficient — 52 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 53.0% proficient, 16.7% advanced — 132 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 68.6% proficient, 25.7% advanced — 35 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 57.8% proficient, 15.6% advanced — 45 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 38.5% proficient, 11.5% advanced — 52 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 91.4% proficient — 35 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 91.4% proficient — 35 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.2% (167 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.7% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.6% (71 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 8.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 90.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 100.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 36 students
- **English Learners**: 3.9% — 14 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,958
- **Federal share**: $1,484
- **State + local share**: $7,474
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 436
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,123,680
- **Federal share**: 23.2%
- **State share**: 8.0%
- **Local share**: 68.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,523,039

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $28,961
- **Poverty rate**: 44.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.9%
- **Unemployment**: 12.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $979
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (SOL LYNN INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 78
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.49 miles (6731 CULLEN BLVD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF HOUSTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.2192 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.8 miles

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