# Hercules Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063255010757`
- **School name**: Hercules Middle
- **Location**: Hercules, CA 94547
- **Address**: 1900 Refugio Valley Rd.
- **District**: West Contra Costa Unified (LEAID `0632550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.99896, -122.25156
- **Phone**: (510)231-1429

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 596
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.5% proficient — 564 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.7% (101 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.8% (92 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (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**: 43.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.1% — 36 students
- **English Learners**: 8.8% — 52 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 40 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $5,401
- **Federal share**: $1,595
- **State + local share**: $3,806
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 593
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,299,787
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 46.9%
- **Local share**: 42.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,509,805

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $145,987
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,321
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.1 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.13 miles (PROPOSED HERCULES MIDDLE SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SONOMA RANCH MUTUAL WATER COMPANY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.80968 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hercules High** — 0.0 mi away, 0.95% (this school: 16.7%)
- **Hanna Ranch Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 12.7% (this school: 16.7%)
- **Pinole Valley High** — 2.0 mi away, 1.39% (this school: 16.7%)
- **West County Mandarin** — 2.8 mi away, 8.9% (this school: 16.7%)
- **De Anza High** — 2.9 mi away, 3.35% (this school: 16.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Hanna Ranch Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52.35% (this school: 49.75%)
- **Ellerhorst Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 53.85% (this school: 49.75%)
- **West County Mandarin** — 2.8 mi away, 61.05% (this school: 49.75%)
- **John Swett High** — 4.1 mi away, 51.25% (this school: 49.75%)
- **Middle College High** — 5.1 mi away, 76.7% (this school: 49.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Hanna Ranch Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ellerhorst Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **West County Mandarin** — 2.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Mira Vista Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Madera Elementary** — 5.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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