# Merlinda Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/merlinda-elementary-west-covina/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/merlinda-elementary-west-covina

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064200006881`
- **School name**: Merlinda Elementary
- **Location**: West Covina, CA 91790
- **Address**: 1120 South Valinda Ave.
- **District**: West Covina Unified (LEAID `0642000`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.05550, -117.92460
- **Phone**: (626)931-1720

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 460
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.5% proficient — 246 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.4% (106 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.2% (15 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**: 75.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.7% — 59 students
- **English Learners**: 14.2% — 66 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,981
- **Federal share**: $2,141
- **State + local share**: $17,840
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 464
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,142,416
- **Federal share**: 11.9%
- **State share**: 65.2%
- **Local share**: 22.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,750,463

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $123,268
- **Poverty rate**: 7.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.6%
- **Unemployment**: 7.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,686
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.4 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 127
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.36 miles (WEST COVINA SPORTSPLEX SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VALENCIA HEIGHTS WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Walnut Grove Intermediate** — 0.5 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Merced Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Coronado High (Continuation)** — 0.7 mi away, 16.94% (this school: 21.4%)
- **West Covina High** — 0.8 mi away, 0.61% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Vine Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 18.2% (this school: 21.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Cameron Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 43.3% (this school: 32.75%)
- **Merced Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 32.75%)
- **West Covina High** — 0.8 mi away, 44.55% (this school: 32.75%)
- **Wescove Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 50.75% (this school: 32.75%)
- **Vine Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 45.1% (this school: 32.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Merced Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Wescove Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **San Jose Charter Academy** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Grovecenter Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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