# Valley Atwater Community

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/valley-atwater-community-atwater

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069102010961`
- **School name**: Valley Atwater Community
- **Location**: Atwater, CA 95301
- **Address**: 1800 Matthew Ave.
- **District**: Merced County Office of Education (LEAID `0691020`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.34000, -120.61773
- **Phone**: (209)381-4550
- **Website**: https://www.mcoe.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 122
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 7
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 19.1% proficient — 41 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 66.0% (cohort of 47)
- **2021**: 54.5% (cohort of 44)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.4% (7 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 132.8% (89 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.3% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (4 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**: 94.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.3% — 10 students
- **English Learners**: 13.3% — 16 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,948
- **Federal share**: $1,944
- **State + local share**: $19,004
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 120
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $116,386,436
- **Federal share**: 30.8%
- **State share**: 44.1%
- **Local share**: 25.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $27,958,413

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $124,531
- **Poverty rate**: 15.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,165
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.5 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.64 miles (CITY OF LIVINGSTON CORRIDOR STUDY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Aileen Colburn Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 9.9% (this school: 19.4%)
- **Mitchell Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 12.4% (this school: 19.4%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 1.0 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 19.4%)
- **Shaffer Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 12% (this school: 19.4%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 19.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Aileen Colburn Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 40.3% (this school: 19.55%)
- **Mitchell Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 32.7% (this school: 19.55%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 1.0 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 19.55%)
- **Shaffer Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38.7% (this school: 19.55%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 57% (this school: 19.55%)

### graduation rate
- **Atwater High** — 1.8 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 66%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 2.4 mi away, 99% (this school: 66%)
- **Livingston High** — 6.3 mi away, 99.3% (this school: 66%)
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 6.7 mi away, 97% (this school: 66%)
- **Merced High** — 8.0 mi away, 96.5% (this school: 66%)

### math proficiency
- **Aileen Colburn Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mitchell Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Shaffer Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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