# Bernice Ayer Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060744007587`
- **School name**: Bernice Ayer Middle
- **Location**: San Clemente, CA 92673
- **Address**: 1271 Sarmentoso
- **District**: Capistrano Unified (LEAID `0607440`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.46650, -117.62560
- **Phone**: (949)366-9607
- **Website**: https://bams.capousd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 919
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 62.8% proficient — 825 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.4% (129 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (11 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.3% (20 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 36.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.8%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 54.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 6.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 37.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.1% — 106 students
- **English Learners**: 13.0% — 114 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,656
- **Federal share**: $1,297
- **State + local share**: $17,359
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 878
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,513,098
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 31.0%
- **Local share**: 61.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,388,782

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $194,207
- **Poverty rate**: 2.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.2%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.5 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 22.17 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Truman Benedict Elementary** — 0.0 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 14.4%)
- **Vista del Mar Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 14.2% (this school: 14.4%)
- **Vista del Mar Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 9.5% (this school: 14.4%)
- **San Clemente High** — 1.9 mi away, 1.45% (this school: 14.4%)
- **San Juan Hills High** — 2.5 mi away, 1.41% (this school: 14.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Vista del Mar Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 73.95% (this school: 71.4%)
- **Vista del Mar Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 73.8% (this school: 71.4%)
- **San Clemente High** — 1.9 mi away, 72.85% (this school: 71.4%)
- **San Juan Hills High** — 2.5 mi away, 73.9% (this school: 71.4%)
- **Dana Hills High** — 4.4 mi away, 73.95% (this school: 71.4%)

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