# North Monterey County Center for Independent Study

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062759009412`
- **School name**: North Monterey County Center for Independent Study
- **Location**: Salinas, CA 93907
- **Address**: 17500 Pesante Rd.
- **District**: North Monterey County Unified (LEAID `0627590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 36.77550, -121.66880
- **Phone**: (831)633-7050

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 96
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 4
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.4% proficient — 41 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 94.0% (cohort of 50)
- **2021**: 77.0% (cohort of 77)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 28.6% (14 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.4% (62 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.2% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.4% (11 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**: 77.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.6% — 10 students
- **English Learners**: 11.4% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,049
- **Federal share**: $1,802
- **State + local share**: $19,247
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 131
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,380,066
- **Federal share**: 13.6%
- **State share**: 55.2%
- **Local share**: 31.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,113,400

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $112,556
- **Poverty rate**: 3.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.2%
- **Unemployment**: 10.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,114
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.64 miles (CORTES TRUCK CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALCO WATER SERVICE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.16393 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Prunedale Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 24% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Gavilan View Middle** — 3.1 mi away, 12.8% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Elkhorn Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 22.8% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Echo Valley Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 15.7% (this school: 28.6%)
- **La Joya Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 17.8% (this school: 28.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Lagunita Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 59.85% (this school: 38.2%)
- **North Monterey County High** — 3.6 mi away, 56.5% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Rancho San Juan High** — 3.8 mi away, 56.8% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Salinas City Virtual Academy** — 5.3 mi away, 39.85% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Boronda Elementary** — 5.4 mi away, 53% (this school: 38.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Pajaro Valley High** — 11.8 mi away, 94.2% (this school: 94%)
- **Central Coast High** — 13.8 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 94%)
- **Seaside High** — 14.1 mi away, 94.8% (this school: 94%)
- **Dr. TJ Owens Gilroy Early College Academy** — 14.7 mi away, 96.9% (this school: 94%)

### math proficiency
- **Prunedale Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Gavilan View Middle** — 3.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Elkhorn Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **La Joya Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **John Gutierrez Middle** — 3.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-monterey-county-center-for-independent-study-salinas/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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