# Tenaya Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062460003696`
- **School name**: Tenaya Middle
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95340
- **Address**: 760 West Eighth St.
- **District**: Merced City Elementary (LEAID `0624600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.29215, -120.49287
- **Phone**: (209)385-6687
- **Website**: https://tenaya.mercedcsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 607
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.6%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.0% proficient — 527 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.6% (141 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.4% (80 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (6 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**: 94.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.4% — 67 students
- **English Learners**: 17.8% — 104 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 43 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,018
- **Federal share**: $3,093
- **State + local share**: $14,925
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 585
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,734,481
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 74.4%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,443,783

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $37,978
- **Poverty rate**: 41.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.7%
- **Unemployment**: 20.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $941
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.5 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.74 miles (REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MERCED 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**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Alicia Reyes Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 20.7% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 16.6% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Leontine Gracey Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 20.1% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 1.2 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 1.2 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 22.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Farmdale Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38.5% (this school: 35%)
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 37.45% (this school: 35%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 1.8 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 35%)
- **Merced High** — 2.2 mi away, 47.2% (this school: 35%)
- **Ada Givens Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 38.05% (this school: 35%)

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