# Gould Educational Center

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/gould-educational-center-madera

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069101707126`
- **School name**: Gould Educational Center
- **Location**: Madera, CA 93637
- **Address**: 117 West Dunham
- **District**: Madera County Superintendent of Schools (LEAID `0691017`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 36.95135, -120.05754
- **Phone**: (559)674-0915
- **Website**: https://www.mcsos.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 351
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 14.6% proficient — 114 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 20.0% (cohort of 30)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 26)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 59.6% (136 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 41.7% (145 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 110.6% — 398 students
- **English Learners**: 40.3% — 145 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $54,372
- **Federal share**: $14,577
- **State + local share**: $39,795
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 360
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $113,150,000
- **Federal share**: 21.5%
- **State share**: 46.1%
- **Local share**: 32.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $27,927,941

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $88,771
- **Poverty rate**: 17.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.5%
- **Unemployment**: 10.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,078
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.6 miles (INDUSTRIAL WASTE PROCESSING)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.19 miles (ROAD 28 PROPOSED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MADERA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-07-06

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.11189 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **James Madison Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 15% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Madera High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Sierra Vista Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 24.6% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Alpha Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 22.4% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Madera South High** — 0.9 mi away, 1.08% (this school: 59.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **James Madison Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 36.6% (this school: 17.3%)
- **Madera High** — 0.5 mi away, 57.5% (this school: 17.3%)
- **Sierra Vista Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 27.9% (this school: 17.3%)
- **Alpha Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 29.55% (this school: 17.3%)
- **Madera South High** — 0.9 mi away, 33.9% (this school: 17.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Madera High** — 0.5 mi away, 93% (this school: 20%)
- **Madera South High** — 0.9 mi away, 93.9% (this school: 20%)
- **Duane E. Furman Independent Study** — 1.1 mi away, 87.3% (this school: 20%)
- **Pioneer Technical Center** — 1.3 mi away, 53.5% (this school: 20%)
- **Mountain Vista High** — 1.8 mi away, 83.2% (this school: 20%)

### math proficiency
- **Madera High** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Alpha Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Parkwood Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Sherman Thomas Charter** — 2.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

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