# Palm Avenue Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palm-avenue-middle-wasco/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palm-avenue-middle-wasco

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064140006846`
- **School name**: Palm Avenue Middle
- **Location**: Wasco, CA 93280
- **Address**: 1017 Palm Ave.
- **District**: Wasco Union Elementary (LEAID `0641400`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.59023, -119.35037
- **Phone**: (661)758-7130
- **Website**: https://www.wuesd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 631
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.1%

## 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)**: 40.1% proficient — 614 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.4% (100 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.8% (61 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (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**: 92.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.9% — 56 students
- **English Learners**: 24.1% — 152 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,570
- **Federal share**: $1,014
- **State + local share**: $18,556
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 632
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,983,673
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 69.9%
- **Local share**: 16.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,752,187

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,462
- **Poverty rate**: 25.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,289
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 40.0 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 23.09 miles (PROPOSED VALLEY OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSION)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wasco High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.24% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Wasco Independence High** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 14.7% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Teresa Burke Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 14.6% (this school: 15.4%)
- **James A. Forrest Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 15.3% (this school: 15.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Wasco High** — 0.4 mi away, 34.55% (this school: 30.05%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 34.9% (this school: 30.05%)
- **John L. Prueitt Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 32.7% (this school: 30.05%)
- **Maple Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 33.3% (this school: 30.05%)
- **Sequoia Elementary** — 7.0 mi away, 36.5% (this school: 30.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Richland Junior High** — 7.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Golden Oak Elementary** — 7.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Grow Academy Shafter** — 7.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Semitropic Elementary** — 8.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rio Bravo Elementary** — 12.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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