# Merwin Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/merwin-elementary-covina/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061005001100`
- **School name**: Merwin Elementary
- **Location**: Covina, CA 91722
- **Address**: 16125 Cypress St.
- **District**: Covina-Valley Unified (LEAID `0610050`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.09650, -117.93059
- **Phone**: (626)472-7660
- **Website**: http://merwin.c-vusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 462
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.0% proficient — 196 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 9.4% (43 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.4% (47 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.0%
- **Black/African American**: 4.8%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.6% — 56 students
- **English Learners**: 16.2% — 72 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,304
- **Federal share**: $1,507
- **State + local share**: $20,797
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 445
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,088,180
- **Federal share**: 12.3%
- **State share**: 61.7%
- **Local share**: 26.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,537,747

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $113,250
- **Poverty rate**: 6.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,083
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 87
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.50 miles (FORMER LERNER S SERVICE STATION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SUBURBAN WATER SYSTEMS-SAN JOSE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Manzanita Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 3.7% (this school: 9.4%)
- **Alice M. Ellington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 3.11% (this school: 9.4%)
- **Northview High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 9.4%)
- **Baldwin Park High** — 1.4 mi away, 4.97% (this school: 9.4%)
- **Fairvalley High (Continuation)** — 1.6 mi away, 3.77% (this school: 9.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Manzanita Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 47.15% (this school: 34%)
- **Las Palmas Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 42.8% (this school: 34%)
- **Grovecenter Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 51.2% (this school: 34%)
- **Northview High** — 1.1 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 34%)
- **Gladstone Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 37.2% (this school: 34%)

### math proficiency
- **Manzanita Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Las Palmas Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Grovecenter Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Northview High** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Gladstone Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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