# La Paz Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/la-paz-middle-salinas

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063398008745`
- **School name**: La Paz Middle
- **Location**: Salinas, CA 93905
- **Address**: 1300 North Sanborn Rd.
- **District**: Salinas Union High (LEAID `0633980`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.69059, -121.60459
- **Phone**: (831)796-7900
- **Website**: https://www.salinas.k12.ca.us/sites/do/info-hms.htm

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,099
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 54
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.5% proficient — 1,087 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.0% (130 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.8% (33 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (10 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**: 97.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.6% — 135 students
- **English Learners**: 42.6% — 494 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 77 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,531
- **Federal share**: $1,847
- **State + local share**: $15,684
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,160
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,036,490
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 65.8%
- **Local share**: 23.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,583,116

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,972
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,399
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.8 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.67 miles (PEREZ AUTO REPAIR 15 SHERWOOD SALINAS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALCO WATER SERVICE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.16393 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Alisal High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.21% (this school: 11%)
- **Jesse G. Sanchez Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 11%)
- **El Sausal Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 9.7% (this school: 11%)
- **Everett Alvarez High** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 11%)
- **Los Padres Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 7.9% (this school: 11%)

### ela proficiency
- **Cesar E. Chavez Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 39.4% (this school: 29.25%)
- **Alisal High** — 0.4 mi away, 34.75% (this school: 29.25%)
- **Alisal Community** — 0.6 mi away, 32.25% (this school: 29.25%)
- **Monte Bella Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 30.75% (this school: 29.25%)
- **Creekside Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 37.7% (this school: 29.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Monte Bella Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **New Republic Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Harden Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Henry F. Kammann Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rancho San Juan High** — 3.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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