# Herbert Hoover Middle

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/herbert-hoover-middle-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062460003690`
- **School name**: Herbert Hoover Middle
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95340
- **Address**: 800 East 26th St.
- **District**: Merced City Elementary (LEAID `0624600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.30468, -120.46505
- **Phone**: (209)385-6631
- **Website**: https://hoover.mercedcsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 629
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 30.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.4% proficient — 563 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.9% (122 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (50 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (8 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**: 82.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.2% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 11.4% — 69 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 51 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,927
- **Federal share**: $2,611
- **State + local share**: $14,316
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 607
### 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**: $55,037
- **Poverty rate**: 24.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.7%
- **Unemployment**: 12.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,113
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.9 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.11 miles (MERCED CENTER BROWNFIELD)

### 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**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sequoia High** — 0.6 mi away, 5.66% (this school: 18.9%)
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 18.9%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 0.6 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 18.9%)
- **Ada Givens Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 15.8% (this school: 18.9%)
- **Merced High** — 1.2 mi away, 6.82% (this school: 18.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 56.75% (this school: 52.7%)
- **El Capitan High** — 4.4 mi away, 57.3% (this school: 52.7%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 8.0 mi away, 57% (this school: 52.7%)
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 8.7 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 52.7%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 10.0 mi away, 61.75% (this school: 52.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 8.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 8.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 10.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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