# San Marcos Middle

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-marcos-middle-san-marcos

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063488005894`
- **School name**: San Marcos Middle
- **Location**: San Marcos, CA 92069
- **Address**: 650 West Mission Rd.
- **District**: San Marcos Unified (LEAID `0634880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.14700, -117.17500
- **Phone**: (760)290-2500
- **Website**: https://www.smusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 968
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.2% proficient — 900 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.1% (214 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.8% (95 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (5 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**: 63.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.9% — 196 students
- **English Learners**: 21.9% — 216 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 128 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 44 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,790
- **Federal share**: $1,289
- **State + local share**: $15,501
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 987
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,635,052
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 52.8%
- **Local share**: 36.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,240,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,706
- **Poverty rate**: 10.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.2%
- **Unemployment**: 2.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,685
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.6 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 39
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.53 miles (256 W MISSION ROAD CITY OF SAN MARCOS CA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VALLECITOS WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.78877 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Paloma Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 11.7% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Baypoint Preparatory Academy - San Diego** — 1.6 mi away, 13.9% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Discovery Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 9.9% (this school: 21.1%)
- **La Mirada Academy** — 1.6 mi away, 16.9% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Mission Hills High** — 1.8 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 21.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Paloma Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 71.6% (this school: 51.6%)
- **Baypoint Preparatory Academy - San Diego** — 1.6 mi away, 67.95% (this school: 51.6%)
- **Discovery Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 65.6% (this school: 51.6%)
- **Mission Hills High** — 1.8 mi away, 59.55% (this school: 51.6%)
- **High Tech Middle North County** — 1.9 mi away, 68.2% (this school: 51.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Paloma Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Richland Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Double Peak** — 2.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **San Elijo Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Carrillo Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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