# Dona Merced Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060795000763`
- **School name**: Dona Merced Elementary
- **Location**: Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
- **Address**: 10333 Palo Alto
- **District**: Central Elementary (LEAID `0607950`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.11700, -117.57940
- **Phone**: (909)980-1600
- **Website**: https://www.centralsd.net/o/dmes

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 547
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.8% proficient — 276 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.8% (75 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (23 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (18 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 51.9%
- **Black/African American**: 8.1%
- **Asian**: 5.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 33.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.0% — 77 students
- **English Learners**: 6.4% — 35 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,998
- **Federal share**: $2,658
- **State + local share**: $14,340
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 549
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,048,257
- **Federal share**: 12.2%
- **State share**: 69.7%
- **Local share**: 18.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,521,127

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $110,547
- **Poverty rate**: 4.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,295
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.5 miles (STRINGFELLOW)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 72
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.23 miles (YORBA SCHOOL SITE CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DI YORBA 1019 441 04)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CUCAMONGA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.5992 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Deer Canyon Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 9.5% (this school: 12.8%)
- **Victoria Groves Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 7.3% (this school: 12.8%)
- **Terra Vista Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 10.7% (this school: 12.8%)
- **Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 6.9% (this school: 12.8%)
- **Alta Loma High** — 1.9 mi away, 1.71% (this school: 12.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ruth Musser Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 59.1% (this school: 58.4%)
- **Deer Canyon Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 61.75% (this school: 58.4%)
- **Coyote Canyon Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 68% (this school: 58.4%)
- **Victoria Groves Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 69.5% (this school: 58.4%)
- **Vineyard Junior High** — 1.4 mi away, 70.65% (this school: 58.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Deer Canyon Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Victoria Groves Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Terra Vista Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Banyan Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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