# Valley Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060750000715`
- **School name**: Valley Middle
- **Location**: Carlsbad, CA 92008
- **Address**: 1645 Magnolia Ave.
- **District**: Carlsbad Unified (LEAID `0607500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.15790, -117.32940
- **Phone**: (760)331-5300
- **Website**: https://vms.carlsbadusd.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 807
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.6%

## 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)**: 54.1% proficient — 728 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.7% (143 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.7% (94 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 56.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 8.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 24.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.8% — 140 students
- **English Learners**: 7.0% — 55 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 51 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,568
- **Federal share**: $379
- **State + local share**: $15,189
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 788
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,796,772
- **Federal share**: 5.8%
- **State share**: 14.0%
- **Local share**: 80.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,820,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $114,500
- **Poverty rate**: 4.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 57.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,365
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.3 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.81 miles (124 GUAJOME STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CARLSBAD MWD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.67632 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Magnolia Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 7.9% (this school: 17.7%)
- **Carlsbad High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.13% (this school: 17.7%)
- **Carlsbad Village Academy** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.7%)
- **Carlsbad Seaside Academy** — 0.4 mi away, 5.3% (this school: 17.7%)
- **Buena Vista Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 14.9% (this school: 17.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Magnolia Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 68.1% (this school: 60.05%)
- **Carlsbad High** — 0.4 mi away, 64.05% (this school: 60.05%)
- **Kelly Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 71.75% (this school: 60.05%)
- **Hope Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 64.25% (this school: 60.05%)
- **Calavera Hills Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 69.05% (this school: 60.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Kelly Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Calavera Hills Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Sage Creek High** — 2.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Casita Center for Science/Math/Technology** — 3.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Pacific Rim Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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