# Wellington M. Smith Jr.

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/wellington-m-smith-jr-salinas

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069102109234`
- **School name**: Wellington M. Smith Jr.
- **Location**: Salinas, CA 93906
- **Address**: 1420 Natividad Rd.
- **District**: Monterey County Office of Education (LEAID `0691021`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 4–12
- **Coordinates**: 36.70022, -121.63332
- **Phone**: (831)755-3979
- **Website**: https://www.montereycoe.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 50
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 4
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - graduation: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 89.5% (cohort of 19)
- **2021**: 49.5% (cohort of 28)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.6% (15 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **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**: 91.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.5% — 9 students
- **English Learners**: 47.1% — 16 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $67,988
- **Federal share**: $13,272
- **State + local share**: $54,716
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 34
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $263,500,000
- **Federal share**: 18.7%
- **State share**: 47.3%
- **Local share**: 34.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $49,631,268

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $120,227
- **Poverty rate**: 15.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,078
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.1 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.76 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**: 0.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **North Salinas High** — 0.8 mi away, 91.5% (this school: 89.5%)
- **Everett Alvarez High** — 1.3 mi away, 93.7% (this school: 89.5%)
- **Alisal High** — 2.0 mi away, 89.9% (this school: 89.5%)
- **Rancho San Juan High** — 2.1 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 89.5%)
- **Salinas High** — 2.7 mi away, 93.4% (this school: 89.5%)

### math proficiency
- **New Republic Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Harden Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Henry F. Kammann Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Salinas City Virtual Academy** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Laurel Wood Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

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