# Sierra Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-middle-bakersfield/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060363000318`
- **School name**: Sierra Middle
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93306
- **Address**: 3017 Center St.
- **District**: Bakersfield City (LEAID `0603630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.37144, -118.95094
- **Phone**: (661)631-5470
- **Website**: https://sierra.bcsd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 731
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 32.3% proficient — 687 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.2% (184 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.4% (79 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 91.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 3.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.7% — 102 students
- **English Learners**: 35.3% — 263 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 67 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,917
- **Federal share**: $2,665
- **State + local share**: $16,252
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 746
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,118,232
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 77.8%
- **Local share**: 6.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,808,723

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $32,931
- **Poverty rate**: 49.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 0.0%
- **Unemployment**: 16.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,113
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 32.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.7 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.96 miles (231 QUANTICO AVENUE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.0743 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ramon Garza Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 18.2% (this school: 23.2%)
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 16.4% (this school: 23.2%)
- **Pioneer Drive Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 17% (this school: 23.2%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 1.0 mi away, 1.28% (this school: 23.2%)
- **Compton Junior High** — 1.3 mi away, 18.4% (this school: 23.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 57.95% (this school: 49.15%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 1.0 mi away, 58% (this school: 49.15%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 53.9% (this school: 49.15%)
- **Foothill High** — 2.0 mi away, 53.2% (this school: 49.15%)
- **Highland High** — 2.2 mi away, 51.1% (this school: 49.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Foothill High** — 2.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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