# Fortuna Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/fortuna-middle-fortuna

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060142001617`
- **School name**: Fortuna Middle
- **Location**: Fortuna, CA 95540
- **Address**: 843 L St.
- **District**: Fortuna Elementary (LEAID `0601420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.59661, -124.15853
- **Phone**: (707)725-3415
- **Website**: https://fortunamiddle.fortunaesd.com/o/fms

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 231
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Yellow
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.9% proficient — 235 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.1% (58 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.9% (43 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.6% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.0% (10 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 57.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 34.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.1% — 56 students
- **English Learners**: 19.4% — 49 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,549
- **Federal share**: $1,255
- **State + local share**: $13,294
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 253
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,248,897
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 59.3%
- **Local share**: 25.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,507,502

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,439
- **Poverty rate**: 20.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,112
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 43.2 miles (COPPER BLUFF MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.56 miles (APN 201 254 016)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.53802 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Fortuna Union High** — 0.3 mi away, 1.49% (this school: 22.1%)
- **East High (Continuation)** — 0.4 mi away, 12.77% (this school: 22.1%)
- **Linell K. Walker Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 20.1% (this school: 22.1%)
- **Norman G. Ambrosini Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 15.7% (this school: 22.1%)
- **Redwood Preparatory Charter** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Linell K. Walker Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 36.45%)
- **Norman G. Ambrosini Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 39.4% (this school: 36.45%)
- **Redwood Preparatory Charter** — 2.0 mi away, 60.7% (this school: 36.45%)
- **Toddy Thomas Middle** — 2.2 mi away, 37.95% (this school: 36.45%)
- **Hydesville Elementary** — 4.8 mi away, 59.2% (this school: 36.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Norman G. Ambrosini Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Redwood Preparatory Charter** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Hydesville Elementary** — 4.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ferndale High** — 5.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ferndale Elementary** — 5.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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