# Merrill F. West High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060004707371`
- **School name**: Merrill F. West High
- **Location**: Tracy, CA 95376
- **Address**: 1775 West Lowell Ave.
- **District**: Tracy Joint Unified (LEAID `0600047`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.74820, -121.44710
- **Phone**: (209)830-3370
- **Website**: https://www.tracy.k12.ca.us/sites/whs
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6820189 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill_F._West_High_School
- **Founded**: 1993

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,920
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 89
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.7% proficient — 467 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.0% (cohort of 522)
- **2021**: 79.0% (cohort of 498)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 24

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (66 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (9 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 55.7%
- **Black/African American**: 19.4%
- **Asian**: 6.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 13.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.6%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 74.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.0% — 331 students
- **English Learners**: 21.3% — 439 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 122 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 36 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,976
- **Federal share**: $1,366
- **State + local share**: $14,610
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,066
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,310,423
- **Federal share**: 8.8%
- **State share**: 61.7%
- **Local share**: 29.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,185,361

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $91,667
- **Poverty rate**: 5.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,228
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (TRACY DEFENSE DEPOT USARMY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.73 miles (PROPOSED CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.20055 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Duncan-Russell Community Day** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)
- **George and Evelyn Stein Continuation** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)
- **Millennium Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)
- **Discovery Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.58%)
- **Tracy High** — 1.6 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 0.58%)

### ela proficiency
- **Millennium Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 49.85%)
- **Tracy High** — 1.6 mi away, 50.85% (this school: 49.85%)
- **John C. Kimball High** — 1.8 mi away, 63.25% (this school: 49.85%)
- **George Kelly Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 58.3% (this school: 49.85%)
- **Anthony C. Traina Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 58.05% (this school: 49.85%)

### graduation rate
- **Millennium Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 99.2% (this school: 90%)
- **Mountain House High** — 5.5 mi away, 98.8% (this school: 90%)
- **Valley View Charter Prep** — 8.7 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 90%)
- **Delta Charter** — 8.7 mi away, 92.9% (this school: 90%)
- **Delta Charter Online** — 8.7 mi away, 96.1% (this school: 90%)

### math proficiency
- **Melville S. Jacobson Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Louis J. Villalovoz Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Millennium Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Primary Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **South/West Park Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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