# WELCH MIDDLE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482364005501`
- **School name**: WELCH MIDDLE
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77071
- **Address**: 11544 S GESSNER
- **District**: HOUSTON ISD (LEAID `4823640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.65322, -95.52916
- **Phone**: (713)778-3300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 547
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 99.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: B
  - relative_performance: Not Rated: Senate Bill 1365
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 79

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 78.0% proficient — 50 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 22.0% proficient, 2.0% advanced — 50 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 53.0% proficient — 1,419 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 24.0% proficient, 7.8% advanced — 1,419 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 50.1% proficient — 511 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 37.5% proficient — 152 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 42.8% proficient — 159 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 61.3% proficient — 150 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 16.8% proficient, 5.7% advanced — 511 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 10.5% proficient, 3.9% advanced — 152 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 17.0% proficient, 8.8% advanced — 159 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 21.3% proficient, 5.3% advanced — 150 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 63.6% proficient — 508 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 67.5% proficient — 200 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 61.4% proficient — 158 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 60.7% proficient — 150 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.6% (113 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.5% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.7% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.5% (85 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 55.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 40.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 99.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 71 students
- **English Learners**: 49.5% — 271 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 42 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,523
- **Federal share**: $1,444
- **State + local share**: $8,080
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 727
### 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**: $60,246
- **Poverty rate**: 15.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 43.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $967
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (CRYSTAL CHEMICAL CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 29
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.64 miles (0 WILLIAMCREST AT GESSNER)

### 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**: 10.8623 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **TEXANS CAN ACADEMY - HOUSTON SOUTHWEST** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.46%)
- **VALLEY WEST EL** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.46%)
- **MILNE EL** — 1.0 mi away, 1.38% (this school: 1.46%)
- **BELL EL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.46%)
- **HALPIN EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR** — 1.7 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 1.46%)

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