# Carl Smith Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/carl-smith-middle-terra-bella/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/carl-smith-middle-terra-bella

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063906004200`
- **School name**: Carl Smith Middle
- **Location**: Terra Bella, CA 93270
- **Address**: 23825 Avenue 92
- **District**: Terra Bella Union Elementary (LEAID `0639060`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.95631, -119.03897
- **Phone**: (559)535-4451

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 262
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.6% proficient — 236 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.6% (59 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (13 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 94.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.4% — 23 students
- **English Learners**: 68.1% — 186 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,649
- **Federal share**: $4,712
- **State + local share**: $13,937
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 273
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,792,839
- **Federal share**: 18.1%
- **State share**: 69.7%
- **Local share**: 12.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,796,675

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $79,408
- **Poverty rate**: 10.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.4%
- **Unemployment**: 14.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,130
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 52.0 miles (SELMA PRESSURE TREATING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.80 miles (FUTURE K 8 SITE ON NEWCOMB)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TERRA BELLA IRRIGATION DISTRICT - TBT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 22
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Terra Bella Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 18% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Hope Elementary** — 4.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Pioneer Middle** — 6.5 mi away, 17.5% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Santa Fe Elementary** — 7.4 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Summit Charter Academy** — 7.5 mi away, 7.1% (this school: 21.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Pioneer Middle** — 6.5 mi away, 43.1% (this school: 30.8%)
- **Vandalia Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 39.35% (this school: 30.8%)
- **Santa Fe Elementary** — 7.4 mi away, 33.9% (this school: 30.8%)
- **Summit Charter Academy** — 7.5 mi away, 57.9% (this school: 30.8%)
- **Olive Street Elementary** — 7.5 mi away, 46.8% (this school: 30.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Vandalia Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Santa Fe Elementary** — 7.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Summit Charter Academy** — 7.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Porterville High** — 7.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **John J. Doyle Elementary** — 7.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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