# Joe Stefani

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/joe-stefani-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062460011688`
- **School name**: Joe Stefani
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95348
- **Address**: 2768 Ranchero Ln.
- **District**: Merced City Elementary (LEAID `0624600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 3–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.32925, -120.53515
- **Phone**: (209)724-2500
- **Website**: https://stefani.mercedcsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 641
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.9% proficient — 566 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.6% (116 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 24.4% (147 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 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**: 90.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.9% — 42 students
- **English Learners**: 16.6% — 101 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,737
- **Federal share**: $2,211
- **State + local share**: $14,526
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 608
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,734,481
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 74.4%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,443,783

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,714
- **Poverty rate**: 20.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,373
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.1 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.88 miles (REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MERCED BROWNFIELD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCED
- **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**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Buhach Colony High** — 2.5 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 17.6%)
- **McSwain Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 10.8% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 2.8 mi away, 16.6% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Juniper Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 14% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Merced High** — 3.4 mi away, 6.82% (this school: 17.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Franklin Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 46.4% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 2.5 mi away, 41.2% (this school: 38.95%)
- **McSwain Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 51% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Rudolph Rivera Middle** — 2.8 mi away, 39.65% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Rudolph Rivera Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 39.15% (this school: 38.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 3.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 4.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Peggy Heller Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 4.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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