# Herbert H. Cruickshank Middle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062460003307`
- **School name**: Herbert H. Cruickshank Middle
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95340
- **Address**: 601 Mercy Ave.
- **District**: Merced City Elementary (LEAID `0624600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.33908, -120.46305
- **Phone**: (209)385-6330
- **Website**: https://cruickshank.mercedcsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 624
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 31.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.9% proficient — 585 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.7% (123 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.1% (61 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**: 64.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.6% — 48 students
- **English Learners**: 3.6% — 23 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,205
- **Federal share**: $2,333
- **State + local share**: $13,872
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 630
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,734,481
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 74.4%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,443,783

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $90,341
- **Poverty rate**: 15.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.5%
- **Unemployment**: 22.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,261
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.9 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.69 miles (MERCED CENTER BROWNFIELD)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Merced High** — 1.4 mi away, 6.82% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 12.5% (this school: 18.7%)
- **El Capitan High** — 2.0 mi away, 7.6% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Ada Givens Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 15.8% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 2.7 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 18.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Merced High** — 1.4 mi away, 47.2% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 56.75% (this school: 41.45%)
- **El Capitan High** — 2.0 mi away, 57.3% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 3.5 mi away, 44.2% (this school: 41.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 6.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 7.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Peggy Heller Elementary** — 7.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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

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