# Valley Merced Community

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/valley-merced-community-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069102008217`
- **School name**: Valley Merced Community
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95341
- **Address**: 1850 Wardrobe Ave.
- **District**: Merced County Office of Education (LEAID `0691020`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.29439, -120.50877
- **Phone**: (209)381-4500
- **Website**: https://www.mcoe.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 99
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 4
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - ela: Red
  - chronic_absent: Red
  - graduation: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 0.0% proficient — 41 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 54.8% (cohort of 62)
- **2021**: 57.0% (cohort of 135)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 78.9% (15 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 95.6% (175 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.6% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 39.5% (32 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**: 96.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 37.0% — 30 students
- **English Learners**: 39.5% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,632
- **Federal share**: $2,758
- **State + local share**: $16,874
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 81
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $116,386,436
- **Federal share**: 30.8%
- **State share**: 44.1%
- **Local share**: 25.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $27,958,413

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,321
- **Poverty rate**: 10.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.1%
- **Unemployment**: 11.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,655
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.9 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.97 miles (REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MERCED BROWNFIELD)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 0.0 mi away, 16.6% (this school: 78.9%)
- **Margaret Sheehy Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 29% (this school: 78.9%)
- **Leontine Gracey Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 20.1% (this school: 78.9%)
- **Alicia Reyes Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 20.7% (this school: 78.9%)
- **Tenaya Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 22.6% (this school: 78.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 0.0 mi away, 29.45% (this school: 10%)
- **Margaret Sheehy Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 24.35% (this school: 10%)
- **Leontine Gracey Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 27.95% (this school: 10%)
- **Alicia Reyes Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 25.9% (this school: 10%)
- **Tenaya Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 35% (this school: 10%)

### graduation rate
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 0.0 mi away, 97% (this school: 54.8%)
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 1.9 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 54.8%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 1.9 mi away, 85.2% (this school: 54.8%)
- **Merced High** — 2.6 mi away, 96.5% (this school: 54.8%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 3.2 mi away, 96% (this school: 54.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Merced County Special Education** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 2.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Merced High** — 2.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rudolph Rivera Middle** — 2.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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