# McSwain Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mcswain-elementary-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062436003654`
- **School name**: McSwain Elementary
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95341
- **Address**: 922 Scott Rd.
- **District**: McSwain Union Elementary (LEAID `0624360`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.30092, -120.56708
- **Phone**: (209)354-2700
- **Website**: https://www.mcswain.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 912
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.0% proficient — 617 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 10.8% (101 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.9% (33 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**: 36.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.9% — 112 students
- **English Learners**: 8.4% — 79 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,795
- **Federal share**: $489
- **State + local share**: $14,306
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 939
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,110,577
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 66.2%
- **Local share**: 24.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,930,288

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $61,563
- **Poverty rate**: 14.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 5.8%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,068
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.6 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.99 miles (REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MERCED 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**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Buhach Colony High** — 3.3 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 10.8%)
- **Bellevue Senior Elementary** — 4.2 mi away, 10.7% (this school: 10.8%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 4.2 mi away, 10.7% (this school: 10.8%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 4.3 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 10.8%)
- **Aileen Colburn Elementary** — 4.6 mi away, 9.9% (this school: 10.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 4.1 mi away, 57% (this school: 51%)
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 51%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 5.6 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 51%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 61.75% (this school: 51%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 56.75% (this school: 51%)

### math proficiency
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 4.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 4.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Peggy Heller Elementary** — 5.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 5.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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