# Harden Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063398000677`
- **School name**: Harden Middle
- **Location**: Salinas, CA 93906
- **Address**: 1561 McKinnon St.
- **District**: Salinas Union High (LEAID `0633980`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.71011, -121.64628
- **Phone**: (831)796-7300
- **Website**: https://ca02208720.schoolwires.net/domain/13

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,101
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 52
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.1% proficient — 1,049 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.9% (186 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.9% (59 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (16 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**: 91.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.4% — 151 students
- **English Learners**: 28.8% — 324 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 95 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,583
- **Federal share**: $1,591
- **State + local share**: $15,992
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,127
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,036,490
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 65.8%
- **Local share**: 23.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,583,116

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $94,079
- **Poverty rate**: 9.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,000
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.6 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.16 miles (10 12 SOLEDAD)

### 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**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **North Salinas High** — 0.3 mi away, 0.66% (this school: 15.9%)
- **Wellington M. Smith Jr.** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 15.9%)
- **Santa Rita Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 13.2% (this school: 15.9%)
- **Gavilan View Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 12.8% (this school: 15.9%)
- **Mount Toro High** — 1.6 mi away, 9.68% (this school: 15.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Salinas City Virtual Academy** — 1.0 mi away, 39.85% (this school: 37.55%)
- **New Republic Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 37.75% (this school: 37.55%)
- **Laurel Wood Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 57.05% (this school: 37.55%)
- **Rancho San Juan High** — 1.6 mi away, 56.8% (this school: 37.55%)
- **El Puente** — 1.6 mi away, 41.15% (this school: 37.55%)

### math proficiency
- **Laurel Wood Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Boronda Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Salinas High** — 3.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Mission Park Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Lagunita Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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