# Don Stowell Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/don-stowell-elementary-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062460007539`
- **School name**: Don Stowell Elementary
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95340
- **Address**: 251 East 11th St.
- **District**: Merced City Elementary (LEAID `0624600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.29151, -120.47578
- **Phone**: (209)381-2803
- **Website**: https://stowell.mercedcsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 501
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 28.6% proficient — 308 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.8% (143 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 31.1% (179 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (6 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**: 96.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.2% — 43 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,843
- **Federal share**: $2,511
- **State + local share**: $15,332
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 527
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,734,481
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 74.4%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,443,783

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $43,281
- **Poverty rate**: 39.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 3.8%
- **Unemployment**: 13.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,044
- **Foreign-born residents**: 40.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 36.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.1 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.91 miles (FORMER SIMPSON CLEANER S PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sequoia High** — 0.6 mi away, 5.66% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 0.6 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 25.1% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Tenaya Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 22.6% (this school: 25.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 0.6 mi away, 28.5% (this school: 24.3%)
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 37.45% (this school: 24.3%)
- **Merced County Special Education** — 0.8 mi away, 26.05% (this school: 24.3%)
- **Tenaya Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 35% (this school: 24.3%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 24.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Merced County Special Education** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Ada Givens Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Merced High** — 2.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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