# Margaret Sheehy Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062460003694`
- **School name**: Margaret Sheehy Elementary
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95340
- **Address**: 1240 West Sixth St.
- **District**: Merced City Elementary (LEAID `0624600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.29387, -120.50147
- **Phone**: (209)385-6676
- **Website**: https://sheehy.mercedcsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 481
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 28.7% proficient — 256 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 29.0% (156 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 33.3% (181 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (14 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**: 97.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.3% — 67 students
- **English Learners**: 34.4% — 173 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,326
- **Federal share**: $3,396
- **State + local share**: $15,930
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 503
### 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**: $37,978
- **Poverty rate**: 41.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.7%
- **Unemployment**: 20.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $941
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.1 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.72 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**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 0.4 mi away, 16.6% (this school: 29%)
- **Tenaya Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 22.6% (this school: 29%)
- **Leontine Gracey Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 20.1% (this school: 29%)
- **Alicia Reyes Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 20.7% (this school: 29%)
- **John C. Fremont Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 22.9% (this school: 29%)

### ela proficiency
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 0.4 mi away, 29.45% (this school: 24.35%)
- **Tenaya Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 35% (this school: 24.35%)
- **Leontine Gracey Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 27.95% (this school: 24.35%)
- **Alicia Reyes Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 25.9% (this school: 24.35%)
- **Merced County Special Education** — 0.8 mi away, 26.05% (this school: 24.35%)

### math proficiency
- **Merced County Special Education** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Merced High** — 2.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rudolph Rivera Middle** — 2.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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