# Mission Hill Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mission-hill-middle-santa-cruz/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mission-hill-middle-santa-cruz

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063560006065`
- **School name**: Mission Hill Middle
- **Location**: Santa Cruz, CA 95060
- **Address**: 425 King St.
- **District**: Santa Cruz City High (LEAID `0635600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.97450, -122.03620
- **Phone**: (831)429-3860
- **Website**: https://missionhill.sccs.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 510
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 32.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.2% proficient — 483 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 20.4% (104 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.3% (19 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 33.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.6% — 93 students
- **English Learners**: 9.8% — 49 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,074
- **Federal share**: $2,506
- **State + local share**: $13,568
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 500
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $121,688
- **Poverty rate**: 6.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 64.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,732
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.3 miles (WATKINS JOHNSON CO STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.10 miles (POGONIP FARM AND GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA CRUZ WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.20139 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Santa Cruz High** — 0.3 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 20.4%)
- **Westlake Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 18.7% (this school: 20.4%)
- **Santa Cruz County Court** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 20.4%)
- **Alternative Family Education** — 1.3 mi away, 7% (this school: 20.4%)
- **Ark Independent Studies** — 1.3 mi away, 7.69% (this school: 20.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Santa Cruz High** — 0.3 mi away, 73.05% (this school: 57.1%)
- **Westlake Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 62.1% (this school: 57.1%)
- **Gault Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 63% (this school: 57.1%)
- **Pacific Collegiate Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 75.4% (this school: 57.1%)
- **De Laveaga Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 66.2% (this school: 57.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Santa Cruz High** — 0.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Bay View Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Gault Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Pacific Collegiate Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Branciforte Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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