# HIGHTOWER EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483510007836`
- **School name**: HIGHTOWER EL
- **Location**: PLANO, TX 75093
- **Address**: 2601 DECATUR DR
- **District**: PLANO ISD (LEAID `4835100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.03345, -96.78417
- **Phone**: (469)752-1800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 448
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 21.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: A
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: A
  - overall: A
  - overall_score: 93

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 90.1% proficient — 474 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 77.2% proficient, 47.5% advanced — 474 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 82.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 88.8% proficient — 206 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 95.2% proficient — 63 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 88.6% proficient — 70 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 83.6% proficient — 73 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 82.0% proficient, 50.0% advanced — 206 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 90.5% proficient, 54.0% advanced — 63 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 82.9% proficient, 42.9% advanced — 70 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 74.0% proficient, 53.4% advanced — 73 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 92.7% proficient — 205 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 93.5% proficient — 62 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 92.9% proficient — 70 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 91.8% proficient — 73 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 77.6% proficient, 50.7% advanced — 205 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 77.4% proficient, 61.3% advanced — 62 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.3% (16 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 5.1% (22 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.4%
- **Black/African American**: 25.8%
- **Asian**: 11.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 38.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 24.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.8% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 17.2% — 74 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,605
- **Federal share**: $540
- **State + local share**: $9,066
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 531
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,708,927
- **Federal share**: 12.0%
- **State share**: 7.3%
- **Local share**: 80.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,219,575

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $74,660
- **Poverty rate**: 6.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 57.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,495
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.4 miles (RSR CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.56 miles (OFFICE WAREHOUSE STORAGE FACILITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PLANO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.23604 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.4 miles

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