# Fred L. Thompson Junior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060639009328`
- **School name**: Fred L. Thompson Junior High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93309
- **Address**: 4200 Planz Rd.
- **District**: Panama-Buena Vista Union (LEAID `0606390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.32611, -119.05122
- **Phone**: (661)832-8011
- **Website**: https://www.pbvusd.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 714
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.5% proficient — 678 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 33.1% (269 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.4% (92 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (14 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 69.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 16.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.3% — 71 students
- **English Learners**: 18.8% — 143 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 50 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,268
- **Federal share**: $2,057
- **State + local share**: $16,211
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 762
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,009,422
- **Federal share**: 18.5%
- **State share**: 71.3%
- **Local share**: 10.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,788,448

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,390
- **Poverty rate**: 26.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,162
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.5 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.76 miles (BAKERSFIELD ARC)

### 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**: 12.9442 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Louise Sandrini Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 31.2% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Stine Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 28.6% (this school: 33.1%)
- **O. J. Actis Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 28.2% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Charles H. Castle Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 27.1% (this school: 33.1%)
- **West High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.67% (this school: 33.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Louise Sandrini Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 43.05% (this school: 36.25%)
- **Stine Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 36.9% (this school: 36.25%)
- **O. J. Actis Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 38.95% (this school: 36.25%)
- **Curran Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 38.2% (this school: 36.25%)
- **West High** — 1.3 mi away, 54.1% (this school: 36.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Louise Sandrini Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Stine Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Charles H. Castle Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Amy B. Seibert Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **West High** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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