# Tropico Middle

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063762006375`
- **School name**: Tropico Middle
- **Location**: Rosamond, CA 93560
- **Address**: 3180 Mojave-Tropico Rd.
- **District**: Southern Kern Unified (LEAID `0637620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.86671, -118.22806
- **Phone**: (661)256-5040

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 815
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 31.7% proficient — 722 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 30.3% (262 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.4% (146 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (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**: 81.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.6% — 120 students
- **English Learners**: 12.4% — 102 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 76 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,934
- **Federal share**: $3,171
- **State + local share**: $13,763
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 820
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,584,028
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 67.2%
- **Local share**: 21.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,521,976

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,625
- **Poverty rate**: 30.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.7%
- **Unemployment**: 12.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,435
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.2 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 41.81 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROSAMOND CSD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Westpark Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 20.9% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Rosamond High Early College Campus** — 2.6 mi away, 1.66% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Rare Earth High (Continuation)** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Rosamond Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 29.7% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Del Sur Senior Elementary** — 10.8 mi away, 22.6% (this school: 30.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Westpark Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 44.5% (this school: 34.85%)
- **Rosamond High Early College Campus** — 2.6 mi away, 49.85% (this school: 34.85%)
- **Del Sur Senior Elementary** — 10.8 mi away, 39.45% (this school: 34.85%)
- **Lancaster High** — 12.1 mi away, 38.45% (this school: 34.85%)
- **Amargosa Creek Middle** — 12.6 mi away, 36.15% (this school: 34.85%)

### math proficiency
- **Rosamond High Early College Campus** — 2.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Del Sur Senior Elementary** — 10.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Desert View Elementary** — 11.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Lancaster High** — 12.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sundown Elementary** — 12.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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