# NORMAN M THOMAS EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `481982005366`
- **School name**: NORMAN M THOMAS EL
- **Location**: FREER, TX 78357
- **Address**: 1404 S NORTON
- **District**: FREER ISD (LEAID `4819820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.87190, -98.61894
- **Phone**: (361)394-6025

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 361
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: A
  - academic_growth: A
  - relative_performance: C
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 86
  - support_label: Comprehensive Progress

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 82.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.5% proficient — 330 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 43.6% proficient, 14.2% advanced — 330 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.1% proficient — 142 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 89.1% proficient — 46 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 66.0% proficient — 47 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 59.2% proficient — 49 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 46.5% proficient, 16.2% advanced — 142 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 69.6% proficient, 21.7% advanced — 46 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 38.3% proficient, 19.1% advanced — 47 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 32.7% proficient, 8.2% advanced — 49 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 71.8% proficient — 142 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 73.9% proficient — 46 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 80.9% proficient — 47 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 61.2% proficient — 49 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.5% proficient, 10.6% advanced — 142 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 47.8% proficient, 15.2% advanced — 46 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (32 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.5% (80 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 11
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 94.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.5% — 48 students
- **English Learners**: 5.3% — 19 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,246
- **Federal share**: $3,272
- **State + local share**: $9,974
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 404
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,764,474
- **Federal share**: 23.6%
- **State share**: 40.9%
- **Local share**: 35.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,843,421

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $61,935
- **Poverty rate**: 13.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $733
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 67.9 miles (BRINE SERVICE COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 22.74 miles (ABANDONED RETAIL BUILDING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FREER WCID
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 78
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

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

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