# La Mesa

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/la-mesa-monterey/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/la-mesa-monterey

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062553003830`
- **School name**: La Mesa
- **Location**: Monterey, CA 93940
- **Address**: 1 La Mesa Way
- **District**: Monterey Peninsula Unified (LEAID `0625530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.58040, -121.87730
- **Phone**: (831)649-1872
- **Website**: http://lme-mpusd-ca.schoolloop.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 689
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 53.1% proficient — 304 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 8.3% (61 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (12 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 40.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.4% — 29 students
- **English Learners**: 6.6% — 43 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,901
- **Federal share**: $2,015
- **State + local share**: $17,886
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 654
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,949,941
- **Federal share**: 12.5%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 46.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,625,842

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $136,607
- **Poverty rate**: 1.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 81.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.7 miles (FORT ORD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.78 miles (CORTES TRUCK CENTER 2)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BUD ANTLE, LLC-SOLEDAD FACILITY WS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.02878 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Monterey High** — 1.7 mi away, 1.21% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Big Sur Charter** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Carmel High** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Dual Language Academy of the Monterey Peninsula** — 3.2 mi away, 7.4% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Pacific Grove High** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Carmel High** — 2.5 mi away, 75.15% (this school: 66.55%)
- **Pacific Grove Middle** — 3.3 mi away, 70.7% (this school: 66.55%)
- **Pacific Grove High** — 3.4 mi away, 76.85% (this school: 66.55%)
- **Robert Down Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 71.3% (this school: 66.55%)
- **Carmel River Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 72.35% (this school: 66.55%)

### math proficiency
- **Pacific Grove High** — 3.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Robert Down Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Carmel River Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Toro Park Elementary** — 9.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Tularcitos Elementary** — 10.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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