# Needles Middle

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062676009951`
- **School name**: Needles Middle
- **Location**: Needles, CA 92363
- **Address**: 720 Bailey Ave.
- **District**: Needles Unified (LEAID `0626760`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.84011, -114.61862
- **Phone**: (760)326-3894
- **Website**: https://www.needlesusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 196
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.3% proficient — 184 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 30.3% (67 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 78.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.5% — 36 students
- **English Learners**: 1.0% — 2 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,870
- **Federal share**: $493
- **State + local share**: $13,377
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 206
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,974,781
- **Federal share**: 22.6%
- **State share**: 54.6%
- **Local share**: 22.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,800,439

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $36,500
- **Poverty rate**: 33.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.9%
- **Unemployment**: 12.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $759
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 131.6 miles (BARSTOW MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 19.35 miles (LAKE HAVASU CITY OF)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NEEDLES, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-01-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Vista Colorado Elementary** — 0.0 mi away, 24.6% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Needles High** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Desert Star Academy** — 10.4 mi away, 15.45% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Young Scholars Academy** — 13.4 mi away, 5.52% (this school: 30.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Needles High** — 0.2 mi away, 48.65% (this school: 38.65%)

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