# Emerson Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060363000297`
- **School name**: Emerson Middle
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93304
- **Address**: 801 Fourth St.
- **District**: Bakersfield City (LEAID `0603630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.36036, -119.01079
- **Phone**: (661)631-5260
- **Website**: http://emerson.bcsd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 813
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 32.0% proficient — 711 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 33.9% (305 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.6% (141 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.9% (40 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 73.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 16.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.2% — 107 students
- **English Learners**: 19.8% — 160 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 68 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 35 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,410
- **Federal share**: $2,638
- **State + local share**: $15,772
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 809
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,118,232
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 77.8%
- **Local share**: 6.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,808,723

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $14,821
- **Poverty rate**: 71.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.9%
- **Unemployment**: 13.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,109
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 64.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.2 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 34
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.10 miles (624 4TH STREET)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.0743 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 26.5% (this school: 33.9%)
- **Vista Continuation High** — 0.2 mi away, 4.29% (this school: 33.9%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 17.6% (this school: 33.9%)
- **Sequoia Jr. High** — 0.9 mi away, 25.9% (this school: 33.9%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 0.9 mi away, 1.12% (this school: 33.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 47.25% (this school: 26%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 34% (this school: 26%)
- **Sequoia Jr. High** — 0.9 mi away, 34.6% (this school: 26%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 0.9 mi away, 37.95% (this school: 26%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 37.9% (this school: 26%)

### math proficiency
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Bessie E. Owens Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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