# Paul L. Cato Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paul-l-cato-middle-bakersfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060363013744`
- **School name**: Paul L. Cato Middle
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93306
- **Address**: 4115 Vineland Rd.
- **District**: Bakersfield City (LEAID `0603630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.39096, -118.89450
- **Phone**: (661)631-5245
- **Website**: http://cato.bcsd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 694
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.6% proficient — 626 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.8% (108 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.0% (52 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (13 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 75.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.6%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 16.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 68.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.7% — 96 students
- **English Learners**: 15.6% — 102 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 73 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,264
- **Federal share**: $2,251
- **State + local share**: $17,013
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 654
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,118,232
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 77.8%
- **Local share**: 6.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,808,723

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $34,116
- **Poverty rate**: 41.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,374
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.6 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.21 miles (231 QUANTICO AVENUE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.0743 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Dr. Douglas K. Fletcher Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 12.2% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Cesar E. Chavez Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 10.8% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Foothill High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Highland High** — 2.3 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Shirley Lane Elementary** — 3.8 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 15.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Foothill High** — 2.1 mi away, 53.2% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Highland High** — 2.3 mi away, 51.1% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 57.95% (this school: 50.8%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 4.1 mi away, 58% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 53.9% (this school: 50.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 4.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Washington Middle** — 4.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 6.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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