# Thornton Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/thornton-middle-fremont/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/thornton-middle-fremont

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061440001687`
- **School name**: Thornton Middle
- **Location**: Fremont, CA 94536
- **Address**: 4357 Thornton Ave.
- **District**: Fremont Unified (LEAID `0614400`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.55670, -122.01560
- **Phone**: (510)793-9090
- **Website**: https://fremontunified.org/thornton

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,972
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 78
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 24.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 69.6% proficient — 1,795 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 7.2% (138 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (26 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.2% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.7%
- **Black/African American**: 72.8%
- **Asian**: 1.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 4.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 19.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.6% — 123 students
- **English Learners**: 4.9% — 91 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 64 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,074
- **Federal share**: $401
- **State + local share**: $13,673
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,854
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,638,562
- **Federal share**: 6.7%
- **State share**: 52.4%
- **Local share**: 40.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,389,839

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $131,141
- **Poverty rate**: 3.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,717
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.0 miles (SOUTH BAY ASBESTOS AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 78
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.47 miles (NILES SQUARE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALAMEDA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.31055 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **American High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.15% (this school: 7.2%)
- **Washington High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 7.2%)
- **Crossroads High (Alternative)** — 1.3 mi away, 3.7% (this school: 7.2%)
- **Bridgepoint High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 7.2%)
- **Young Adult Program** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 7.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **American High** — 0.5 mi away, 74.55% (this school: 67.8%)
- **Brookvale Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 72.35% (this school: 67.8%)
- **John G. Mattos Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 67.8%)
- **Parkmont Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 73% (this school: 67.8%)
- **Niles Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 71.7% (this school: 67.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Brookvale Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Parkmont Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Birch Grove Primary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Niles Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Ardenwood Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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