# Buchser Middle

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063543007866`
- **School name**: Buchser Middle
- **Location**: Santa Clara, CA 95050
- **Address**: 1111 Bellomy St.
- **District**: Santa Clara Unified (LEAID `0635430`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.34430, -121.94220
- **Phone**: (408)423-3000
- **Website**: http://buchser.santaclarausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 711
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 32.2%

## 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)**: 51.5% proficient — 640 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.8% (114 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.7% (36 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (12 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**: 32.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 27.2% — 188 students
- **English Learners**: 31.3% — 216 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 128 students
- **Autism**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,101
- **Federal share**: $1,348
- **State + local share**: $29,753
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 691
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,522,669
- **Federal share**: 4.9%
- **State share**: 13.2%
- **Local share**: 81.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,473,410

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $118,203
- **Poverty rate**: 12.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 57.6%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,472
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (SYNERTEK INC BUILDING 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 238
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.47 miles (VACANT PROPERTY BORDERED BY GUADALUPE RIVER)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.98235 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Washington Open Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 4.5% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Abraham Lincoln High** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Central Park Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 14.9% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Juan Cabrillo Middle** — 1.9 mi away, 12.9% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Bowers Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 12.6% (this school: 15.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Washington Open Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 72.45% (this school: 58.75%)
- **Central Park Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 59.75% (this school: 58.75%)
- **Juan Cabrillo Middle** — 1.9 mi away, 58.95% (this school: 58.75%)
- **Millikin Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 77.9% (this school: 58.75%)
- **Santa Clara High** — 2.2 mi away, 73.8% (this school: 58.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Washington Open Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Merritt Trace Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Juan Cabrillo Middle** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Walter L. Bachrodt Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Millikin Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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