# Merritt Trace Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063459005741`
- **School name**: Merritt Trace Elementary
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95126
- **Address**: 651 Dana Ave.
- **District**: San Jose Unified (LEAID `0634590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.33039, -121.92544
- **Phone**: (408)535-6257

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 829
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.3% proficient — 396 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 27.9% (244 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.4% (122 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (13 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**: 52.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 83 students
- **English Learners**: 28.6% — 239 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 41 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,767
- **Federal share**: $825
- **State + local share**: $19,942
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 836
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,727,655
- **Federal share**: 8.7%
- **State share**: 23.6%
- **Local share**: 67.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,538,692

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $177,625
- **Poverty rate**: 4.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 64.2%
- **Unemployment**: 7.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,334
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.5 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 188
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.34 miles (TILLMAN AVE PARK AVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.98235 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Abraham Lincoln High** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Luther Burbank Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 26.3% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Washington Open Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 4.5% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Buchser Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 15.8% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Sherman Oaks Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 8.5% (this school: 27.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Abraham Lincoln High** — 0.2 mi away, 57.5% (this school: 52.15%)
- **Washington Open Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 72.45% (this school: 52.15%)
- **Buchser Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 58.75% (this school: 52.15%)
- **Sherman Oaks Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 62.4% (this school: 52.15%)
- **River Glen** — 1.9 mi away, 58.65% (this school: 52.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Washington Open Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Sherman Oaks Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Millikin Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Hammer Montessori at Galarza Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Booksin Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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