# Merced High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062466003702`
- **School name**: Merced High
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95348
- **Address**: 205 West Olive Ave.
- **District**: Merced Union High (LEAID `0624660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.32053, -120.47424
- **Phone**: (209)325-1000
- **Website**: http://mhs.muhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q17021453 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merced_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,943
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 86
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.4% proficient — 414 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.5% (cohort of 463)
- **2021**: 94.0% (cohort of 401)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 11

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 109.4% (1,978 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.8% (133 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.5% (48 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**: 76.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 199 students
- **English Learners**: 5.5% — 108 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 115 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,194
- **Federal share**: $1,105
- **State + local share**: $11,089
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,951
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,884,048
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 19.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,409,233

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,740
- **Poverty rate**: 21.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,290
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.9 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.27 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
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 1.4 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 6.82%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 1.4 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 6.82%)
- **Sequoia High** — 1.5 mi away, 5.66% (this school: 6.82%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 2.5 mi away, 4.71% (this school: 6.82%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 5.8 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 6.82%)

### ela proficiency
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 47.2%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 56.75% (this school: 47.2%)
- **El Capitan High** — 3.3 mi away, 57.3% (this school: 47.2%)
- **McSwain Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 51% (this school: 47.2%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 7.1 mi away, 57% (this school: 47.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 2.6 mi away, 97% (this school: 96.5%)
- **El Capitan High** — 3.3 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 5.8 mi away, 99% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Atwater High** — 8.4 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Granada High** — 13.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 96.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 6.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 7.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Peggy Heller Elementary** — 7.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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