# La Merced Intermediate

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062547003800`
- **School name**: La Merced Intermediate
- **Location**: Montebello, CA 90640
- **Address**: 215 East Avenida de la Merced
- **District**: Montebello Unified (LEAID `0625470`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.02320, -118.09440
- **Phone**: (323)722-7262
- **Website**: https://www.montebello.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 682
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.7% proficient — 700 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 29.7% (234 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 34.3% (340 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (10 students) [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**: 86.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.8% — 44 students
- **English Learners**: 36.2% — 274 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 90 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,377
- **Federal share**: $1,105
- **State + local share**: $13,272
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 756
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,329,038
- **Federal share**: 24.4%
- **State share**: 57.9%
- **Local share**: 17.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,895,904

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,780
- **Poverty rate**: 8.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.7%
- **Unemployment**: 6.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,067
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.9 miles (OPERATING INDUSTRIES INC LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 166
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.20 miles (CHAPIN ROAD LANDFILL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MONTEBELLO LAND & WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **La Merced Academy** — 0.2 mi away, 16.5% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 28.2% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Montebello Gardens Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 13.7% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 21.8% (this school: 29.7%)
- **North Ranchito Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 28.2% (this school: 29.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Montebello Gardens Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 44.4% (this school: 38.35%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 42% (this school: 38.35%)
- **Durfee Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 40.9% (this school: 38.35%)
- **Potrero Heights Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 49.05% (this school: 38.35%)
- **Macy Intermediate** — 2.1 mi away, 65.75% (this school: 38.35%)

### math proficiency
- **Macy Intermediate** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **KIPP Poder Public** — 2.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Duff Language Magnet Academy** — 3.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Fourth Street Primary Center** — 3.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Whittier High** — 4.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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

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