# Rutherford B. Gaston Sr. Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rutherford-b-gaston-sr-middle-fresno/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rutherford-b-gaston-sr-middle-fresno

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061455013767`
- **School name**: Rutherford B. Gaston Sr. Middle
- **Location**: Fresno, CA 93706
- **Address**: 1100 East Church Ave.
- **District**: Fresno Unified (LEAID `0614550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.71346, -119.79872
- **Phone**: (559)457-3400
- **Website**: http://go.fresnou.org/gaston

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 814
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 23.4% proficient — 671 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 38.8% (337 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.3% (118 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (19 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 75.6%
- **Black/African American**: 5.8%
- **Asian**: 13.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.9% — 118 students
- **English Learners**: 31.4% — 249 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 88 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,170
- **Federal share**: $2,489
- **State + local share**: $17,681
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 792
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,358,264
- **Federal share**: 21.2%
- **State share**: 66.8%
- **Local share**: 12.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,356,075

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $40,163
- **Poverty rate**: 40.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 3.2%
- **Unemployment**: 13.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,204
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 34.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (FRESNO MUNICIPAL SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 50
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.28 miles (HINTON PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF FRESNO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.316 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **King Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 30.9% (this school: 38.8%)
- **Edison Computech** — 0.4 mi away, 12.1% (this school: 38.8%)
- **W.E.B. DuBois Public Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 35.3% (this school: 38.8%)
- **Edison High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 38.8%)
- **Kirk Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 29.9% (this school: 38.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **King Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 24.95% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Edison Computech** — 0.4 mi away, 72.65% (this school: 21.7%)
- **W.E.B. DuBois Public Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 35.3% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Edison High** — 0.6 mi away, 37.8% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Kirk Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 26.05% (this school: 21.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Edison Computech** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **W.E.B. DuBois Public Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Kirk Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Kepler Neighborhood** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Akira Yokomi Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

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

---
*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.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*
