# Cherry Avenue Middle

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cherry-avenue-middle-tulare

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063987006611`
- **School name**: Cherry Avenue Middle
- **Location**: Tulare, CA 93274
- **Address**: 540 North Cherry St.
- **District**: Tulare City (LEAID `0639870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.21562, -119.33713
- **Phone**: (559)685-7320
- **Website**: http://cherry.tcsdk8.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 483
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.5% proficient — 419 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.3% (107 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.1% (19 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (9 students) [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**: 79.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 21.5% — 98 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 52 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,429
- **Federal share**: $3,351
- **State + local share**: $15,078
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 456
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,811,339
- **Federal share**: 17.0%
- **State share**: 72.6%
- **Local share**: 10.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,195,286

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $79,883
- **Poverty rate**: 14.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,295
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.8 miles (SELMA PRESSURE TREATING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.39 miles (444 E CROSS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TULARE, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.1006 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Garden Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 12.1% (this school: 21.3%)
- **Tulare Union High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.12% (this school: 21.3%)
- **Wilson Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 12.5% (this school: 21.3%)
- **Sierra Vista Charter High** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 21.3%)
- **Live Oak Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 18.3% (this school: 21.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Garden Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 40.45% (this school: 36.25%)
- **Tulare Union High** — 0.5 mi away, 53.4% (this school: 36.25%)
- **Sierra Vista Charter High** — 0.7 mi away, 42.65% (this school: 36.25%)
- **Live Oak Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 43.3% (this school: 36.25%)
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 39.4% (this school: 36.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Garden Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Tulare Union High** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Frank Kohn Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Tulare Western High** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Pleasant Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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