# South Valley Middle

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/south-valley-middle-gilroy

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061518001918`
- **School name**: South Valley Middle
- **Location**: Gilroy, CA 95020
- **Address**: 7881 Murray Ave.
- **District**: Gilroy Unified (LEAID `0615180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.01662, -121.56721
- **Phone**: (669)205-5200
- **Website**: https://svms.gilroyunified.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 784
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.0% proficient — 702 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.2% (165 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.5% (64 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (10 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 83.0%
- **Black/African American**: 4.4%
- **Asian**: 1.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 55.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.5% — 116 students
- **English Learners**: 29.0% — 217 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 68 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,082
- **Federal share**: $1,682
- **State + local share**: $15,400
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 749
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,888,084
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 47.7%
- **Local share**: 42.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,574,925

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,702
- **Poverty rate**: 9.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,322
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.1 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.79 miles (GILROY MONTEREY RD 7301 7363)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF GILROY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.00551 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Gilroy Prep (a Navigator School)** — 0.2 mi away, 11% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Brownell Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 19% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Rod Kelley Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 15.8% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Gilroy High** — 1.5 mi away, 1.02% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Mt. Madonna High** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 21.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Gilroy Prep (a Navigator School)** — 0.2 mi away, 68.6% (this school: 45.5%)
- **Brownell Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 64.25% (this school: 45.5%)
- **Rod Kelley Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 56.05% (this school: 45.5%)
- **Gilroy High** — 1.5 mi away, 57.9% (this school: 45.5%)
- **Solorsano Middle** — 1.9 mi away, 54.35% (this school: 45.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Gilroy Prep (a Navigator School)** — 0.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Brownell Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **El Roble Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Rod Kelley Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Las Animas Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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