# Sam H. Lawson Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sam-h-lawson-middle-cupertino

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061029011448`
- **School name**: Sam H. Lawson Middle
- **Location**: Cupertino, CA 95014
- **Address**: 10401 Vista Dr.
- **District**: Cupertino Union (LEAID `0610290`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.32880, -122.02720
- **Phone**: (408)255-7500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 841
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 15.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 72.0% proficient — 779 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.7% (50 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (16 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 2.2%
- **Black/African American**: 87.9%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 16.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 83 students
- **English Learners**: 12.9% — 108 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 22 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,636
- **Federal share**: $570
- **State + local share**: $18,066
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 834
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,516,473
- **Federal share**: 5.9%
- **State share**: 33.6%
- **Local share**: 60.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,329,523

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $250,001
- **Poverty rate**: 0.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 86.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 51.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.5 miles (INTERSIL INC SIEMENS COMPONENTS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 91
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.16 miles (3275 WILLIAMS ROAD)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.98235 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **William Faria Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 4.6% (this school: 5.7%)
- **Cupertino High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.7%)
- **Homestead High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.7%)
- **Fremont High** — 1.7 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 5.7%)
- **Community Day** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **William Faria Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 76%)
- **Cupertino High** — 1.1 mi away, 80.4% (this school: 76%)
- **John F. Kennedy Middle** — 1.8 mi away, 78.8% (this school: 76%)
- **Monta Vista High** — 1.9 mi away, 80.3% (this school: 76%)
- **Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 76%)

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