# Mountain Empire Junior High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mountain-empire-junior-high-pine-valley/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mountain-empire-junior-high-pine-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062610013049`
- **School name**: Mountain Empire Junior High
- **Location**: Pine Valley, CA 91962
- **Address**: 3305 Buckman Springs Rd.
- **District**: Mountain Empire Unified (LEAID `0626100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.73384, -116.49274
- **Phone**: (619)326-6662
- **Website**: https://www.meusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 245
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 28.8% proficient — 241 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 55.4% (174 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.4% (55 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (3 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**: 62.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.0% — 21 students
- **English Learners**: 16.8% — 50 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,850
- **Federal share**: $1,159
- **State + local share**: $12,691
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 298
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,832,188
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 53.7%
- **Local share**: 31.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,501,145

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $59,684
- **Poverty rate**: 18.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.1%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,779
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 56.4 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 27.35 miles (KKAR SMOG AND AUTO SERVICES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PINE VALLEY MUTUAL WC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 8
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.08258 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Mountain Empire High** — 0.0 mi away, 1.18% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Sunrise High (Continuation)** — 6.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Hillside Junior/Senior High** — 6.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Campo Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 31.9% (this school: 55.4%)
- **JCS - Pine Valley** — 6.4 mi away, 4.8% (this school: 55.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Pine Valley Middle** — 6.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 33.4%)
- **Campo Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 34.7% (this school: 33.4%)
- **JCS - Pine Valley** — 6.4 mi away, 40.3% (this school: 33.4%)
- **Descanso Elementary** — 11.1 mi away, 60.95% (this school: 33.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Pine Valley Middle** — 6.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Campo Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **JCS - Pine Valley** — 6.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Descanso Elementary** — 11.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Clover Flat Elementary** — 12.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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

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