# Helms Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/helms-middle-san-pablo/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063255005034`
- **School name**: Helms Middle
- **Location**: San Pablo, CA 94806
- **Address**: 2500 Road 20
- **District**: West Contra Costa Unified (LEAID `0632550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.96277, -122.33899
- **Phone**: (510)233-3988

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 558
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 16.5% proficient — 523 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 27.8% (166 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 32.9% (253 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (14 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**: 96.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.8% — 57 students
- **English Learners**: 60.5% — 350 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 84 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $6,700
- **Federal share**: $1,881
- **State + local share**: $4,819
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 579
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,299,787
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 46.9%
- **Local share**: 42.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,509,805

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $94,884
- **Poverty rate**: 11.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.1%
- **Unemployment**: 8.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,080
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.1 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.27 miles (FORMER CHURCH CLEANERS)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.80968 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Middle College High** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 27.8%)
- **Richmond High** — 0.8 mi away, 2.83% (this school: 27.8%)
- **Vista Independent Study / Virtual Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 16.3% (this school: 27.8%)
- **Summit Public School: Tamalpais** — 1.2 mi away, 24.5% (this school: 27.8%)
- **Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 27.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Middle College High** — 0.5 mi away, 76.7% (this school: 18.25%)
- **Dover Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 26.5% (this school: 18.25%)
- **Ford Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 25.1% (this school: 18.25%)
- **Highland Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 29.6% (this school: 18.25%)
- **Richmond High** — 0.8 mi away, 24.85% (this school: 18.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Manzanita Middle** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mira Vista Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Montalvin Manor Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sheldon Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Betty Reid Soskin Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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