# Meridian Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060681000621`
- **School name**: Meridian Elementary
- **Location**: El Cajon, CA 92019
- **Address**: 651 South Third St.
- **District**: Cajon Valley Union (LEAID `0606810`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 32.78850, -116.92620
- **Phone**: (619)588-3083

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 570
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 29.6% proficient — 251 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.0% (136 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 31.2% (163 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (7 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 25.7%
- **Black/African American**: 7.0%
- **Asian**: 4.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 60.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 81 students
- **English Learners**: 37.8% — 216 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,254
- **Federal share**: $2,814
- **State + local share**: $17,440
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 572
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,524,900
- **Federal share**: 13.2%
- **State share**: 58.5%
- **Local share**: 28.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,733,563

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $63,974
- **Poverty rate**: 16.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.2%
- **Unemployment**: 18.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,758
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 43.1 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.89 miles (KKAR SMOG AND AUTO SERVICES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: Sycuan
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.25112 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **REACH Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 22%)
- **Elite Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 22%)
- **Granite Hills High** — 1.0 mi away, 1.74% (this school: 22%)
- **Diego Valley East Public Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 6.27% (this school: 22%)
- **El Cajon Valley High** — 1.4 mi away, 3.53% (this school: 22%)

### ela proficiency
- **Granite Hills High** — 1.0 mi away, 45.1% (this school: 33.8%)
- **Lexington Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 53.7% (this school: 33.8%)
- **Bostonia Global** — 1.5 mi away, 37.3% (this school: 33.8%)
- **Kidinnu Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 41.95% (this school: 33.8%)
- **Literacy First Charter** — 1.5 mi away, 67.55% (this school: 33.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Lexington Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Kidinnu Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Literacy First Charter** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Fuerte Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho San Diego Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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