# Pioneer Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060006404873`
- **School name**: Pioneer Middle
- **Location**: Porterville, CA 93257
- **Address**: 225 East College Ave.
- **District**: Porterville Unified (LEAID `0600064`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.04809, -119.01187
- **Phone**: (559)782-7200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 754
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.9%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.1% proficient — 689 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.5% (129 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 40.3% (309 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 6.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 85.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 0.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 72.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.0% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 24.3% — 174 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,764
- **Federal share**: $1,732
- **State + local share**: $17,032
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 717
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,017,621
- **Federal share**: 20.8%
- **State share**: 66.8%
- **Local share**: 12.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,779,974

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $49,467
- **Poverty rate**: 20.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.6%
- **Unemployment**: 11.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $866
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 48.1 miles (SELMA PRESSURE TREATING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.78 miles (FUTURE K 8 SITE ON NEWCOMB)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PORTERVILLE, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Santa Fe Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 17.5%)
- **Olive Street Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 17.5%)
- **John J. Doyle Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 13% (this school: 17.5%)
- **Porterville High** — 1.5 mi away, 0.61% (this school: 17.5%)
- **Belleview Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 16% (this school: 17.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Olive Street Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 46.8% (this school: 43.1%)
- **Porterville High** — 1.5 mi away, 59.55% (this school: 43.1%)
- **Belleview Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 50.95% (this school: 43.1%)
- **Granite Hills High** — 2.3 mi away, 55.1% (this school: 43.1%)
- **Summit Charter Academy** — 3.0 mi away, 57.9% (this school: 43.1%)

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