# Mendota Junior High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mendota-junior-high-mendota

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060002209293`
- **School name**: Mendota Junior High
- **Location**: Mendota, CA 93640
- **Address**: 1258 East Belmont Ave.
- **District**: Mendota Unified (LEAID `0600022`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.74806, -120.38276
- **Phone**: (559)655-4301

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 612
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.3% proficient — 507 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.5% (109 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.7% (94 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (5 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 98.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.3% — 32 students
- **English Learners**: 39.5% — 238 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,462
- **Federal share**: $1,732
- **State + local share**: $11,730
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 602
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,803,576
- **Federal share**: 13.2%
- **State share**: 72.5%
- **Local share**: 14.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,938,470

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,927
- **Poverty rate**: 31.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.8%
- **Unemployment**: 12.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $744
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.9 miles (NEW IDRIA MERCURY MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.24 miles (PROPOSED MENDOTA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MENDOTA, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.99148 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Mendota High** — 0.2 mi away, 0.83% (this school: 17.5%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 11.9% (this school: 17.5%)
- **Mendota Continuation High** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.5%)
- **McCabe Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 12.5% (this school: 17.5%)
- **Mendota Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 7.5% (this school: 17.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Mendota High** — 0.2 mi away, 35.5% (this school: 32.15%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 34.9% (this school: 32.15%)
- **McCabe Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 35% (this school: 32.15%)
- **Mendota Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38.25% (this school: 32.15%)
- **Firebaugh High** — 7.7 mi away, 48.95% (this school: 32.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Mendota Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Hazel M. Bailey Primary** — 8.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Arthur E. Mills Intermediate** — 8.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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

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