# Richland Junior High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richland-junior-high-shafter

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062145009565`
- **School name**: Richland Junior High
- **Location**: Shafter, CA 93263
- **Address**: 331 Shafter Ave.
- **District**: Richland Union Elementary (LEAID `0621450`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.50365, -119.27879
- **Phone**: (661)746-8630
- **Website**: https://www.richlandtrojans.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 558
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.4%

## 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)**: 31.7% proficient — 549 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.7% (159 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (1 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (4 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**: 87.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.7% — 80 students
- **English Learners**: 29.6% — 173 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 58 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,936
- **Federal share**: $8,737
- **State + local share**: $14,199
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 585
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,208,015
- **Federal share**: 18.6%
- **State share**: 63.9%
- **Local share**: 17.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,290,076

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,607
- **Poverty rate**: 25.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,239
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 33.1 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 16.49 miles (PROPOSED VALLEY OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SHAFTER, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.9442 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Redwood Elementary** — 0.0 mi away, 19.3% (this school: 25.7%)
- **Golden Oak Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 16.4% (this school: 25.7%)
- **Central Valley High (Continuation)** — 0.7 mi away, 4.21% (this school: 25.7%)
- **Shafter High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.24% (this school: 25.7%)
- **Grow Academy Shafter** — 1.0 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 25.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Redwood Elementary** — 0.0 mi away, 35.6% (this school: 34.85%)
- **Golden Oak Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 47.25% (this school: 34.85%)
- **Shafter High** — 0.7 mi away, 42.05% (this school: 34.85%)
- **Grow Academy Shafter** — 1.0 mi away, 48.3% (this school: 34.85%)
- **Sequoia Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 36.5% (this school: 34.85%)

### math proficiency
- **Rio Bravo Elementary** — 5.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rio Bravo-Greeley Elementary** — 6.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Norris Elementary** — 9.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Veterans Elementary** — 10.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Almondale Elementary** — 11.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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