# Arellanes Junior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060558010660`
- **School name**: Arellanes Junior High
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93455
- **Address**: 1890 Sandalwood Dr.
- **District**: Santa Maria-Bonita (LEAID `0605580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.89550, -120.48290
- **Phone**: (805)361-6820
- **Website**: https://www.smbsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 668
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.2% proficient — 561 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.8% (127 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.3% (33 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (16 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 94.0%
- **Black/African American**: 3.2%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.3% — 58 students
- **English Learners**: 26.9% — 167 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 45 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,144
- **Federal share**: $2,495
- **State + local share**: $18,649
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 622
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,810,429
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 68.7%
- **Local share**: 19.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,684,230

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,418
- **Poverty rate**: 11.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,805
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.79 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA MARIA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arellanes (Don Juan Bautista) Elementary** — 0.0 mi away, 9.1% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Liberty Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 13.8% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Jimenez Roberto and Dr. Francisco Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 8.6% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Alice Shaw Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 14.7% (this school: 18.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Arellanes (Don Juan Bautista) Elementary** — 0.0 mi away, 29.4% (this school: 27.6%)
- **Lakeview Junior High** — 2.7 mi away, 40.6% (this school: 27.6%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 67.45% (this school: 27.6%)
- **Alice Shaw Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 39.6% (this school: 27.6%)
- **Orcutt Junior High** — 3.3 mi away, 49.4% (this school: 27.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Lakeview Junior High** — 2.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Alice Shaw Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Orcutt Junior High** — 3.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 3.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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

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