# Bernardo Heights Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bernardo-heights-middle-san-diego/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bernardo-heights-middle-san-diego

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063153009425`
- **School name**: Bernardo Heights Middle
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92128
- **Address**: 12990 Paseo Lucido
- **District**: Poway Unified (LEAID `0631530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.99780, -117.06560
- **Phone**: (858)485-4850
- **Website**: https://www.powayusd.com/pusdbhms

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 65
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 13.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.6% proficient — 1,376 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.9% (183 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (13 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 14.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 192 students
- **English Learners**: 4.0% — 60 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 57 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 45 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,811
- **Federal share**: $661
- **State + local share**: $14,150
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,501
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,020,175
- **Federal share**: 6.4%
- **State share**: 39.4%
- **Local share**: 54.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,559,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $129,468
- **Poverty rate**: 4.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 63.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,681
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.6 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.91 miles (317 090 46 48 49)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.78877 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Highland Ranch Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 10.9% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Rolling Hills Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 10.8% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Abraxas Continuation High** — 1.6 mi away, 8.23% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Chaparral Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 10.5% (this school: 11.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 0.2 mi away, 66.65% (this school: 63.3%)
- **Rolling Hills Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 68.4% (this school: 63.3%)
- **Painted Rock Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 72% (this school: 63.3%)
- **Poway to Palomar Middle College High** — 2.2 mi away, 65.35% (this school: 63.3%)
- **Shoal Creek Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 72.15% (this school: 63.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Highland Ranch Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Turtleback Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Painted Rock Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Shoal Creek Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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

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