# Edward C. Merlo Institute of Environmental Studies

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063801012098`
- **School name**: Edward C. Merlo Institute of Environmental Studies
- **Location**: Stockton, CA 95206
- **Address**: 1670 East Sixth St.
- **District**: Stockton Unified (LEAID `0638010`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.93518, -121.26313
- **Phone**: (209)933-7190
- **Website**: https://www.merloinstitute.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 200
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.2% proficient — 45 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 100.0% (cohort of 57)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 39)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.9% (23 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (2 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**: 78.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.0% — 26 students
- **English Learners**: 24.1% — 52 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,204
- **Federal share**: $3,625
- **State + local share**: $17,579
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 200
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,761,698
- **Federal share**: 12.3%
- **State share**: 69.6%
- **Local share**: 18.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,141,097

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $44,459
- **Poverty rate**: 26.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 2.2%
- **Unemployment**: 12.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,193
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.5 miles (MCCORMICK BAXTER CREOSOTING CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 57
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.33 miles (STOCKTON 2135 SOUTH AIRPORT WAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF STOCKTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1486 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Weber Institute** — 2.1 mi away, 62.8% (this school: 43.1%)
- **Health Careers Academy** — 2.3 mi away, 62.45% (this school: 43.1%)
- **Stockton Early College Academy** — 2.6 mi away, 79.2% (this school: 43.1%)
- **Weston Ranch High** — 3.4 mi away, 55.35% (this school: 43.1%)
- **Valentine Peyton Elementary** — 4.6 mi away, 44.2% (this school: 43.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Aspire Rosa Parks Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Stockton Collegiate International Secondary** — 1.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Stockton Collegiate International Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Voices College Bound Language Academy at Stockton** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Weber Institute** — 2.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-c-merlo-institute-of-environmental-studies-stockton/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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