# Merced County Special Education

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069102007147`
- **School name**: Merced County Special Education
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95341
- **Address**: 632 West 13th St.
- **District**: Merced County Office of Education (LEAID `0691020`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.29776, -120.48852
- **Phone**: (209)381-6711
- **Website**: https://www.mcoe.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 942
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 72
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 32.1% proficient — 289 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 8.5% (cohort of 47)
- **2021**: 15.0% (cohort of 52)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 49.4% (305 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 49.3% (399 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (5 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**: 65.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 100.8% — 902 students
- **English Learners**: 23.8% — 213 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $63,801
- **Federal share**: $4,832
- **State + local share**: $58,969
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 895
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $116,386,436
- **Federal share**: 30.8%
- **State share**: 44.1%
- **Local share**: 25.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $27,958,413

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $43,406
- **Poverty rate**: 23.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.9%
- **Unemployment**: 12.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,268
- **Foreign-born residents**: 42.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.3 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.35 miles (FORMER SIMPSON CLEANER S PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Tenaya Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 22.6% (this school: 49.4%)
- **Margaret Sheehy Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 29% (this school: 49.4%)
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 0.8 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 49.4%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 0.8 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 49.4%)
- **Alicia Reyes Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 20.7% (this school: 49.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Tenaya Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 35% (this school: 26.05%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 0.8 mi away, 28.5% (this school: 26.05%)
- **John C. Fremont Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 34.8% (this school: 26.05%)
- **Leontine Gracey Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 27.95% (this school: 26.05%)
- **John Muir Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 34.6% (this school: 26.05%)

### graduation rate
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 0.8 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 8.5%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 0.8 mi away, 85.2% (this school: 8.5%)
- **Valley Merced Community** — 1.1 mi away, 54.8% (this school: 8.5%)
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 8.5%)
- **Merced High** — 1.8 mi away, 96.5% (this school: 8.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 6.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 7.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Peggy Heller Elementary** — 7.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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