# Melinda Heights Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063386007200`
- **School name**: Melinda Heights Elementary
- **Location**: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
- **Address**: 21001 Rancho Trabuco
- **District**: Saddleback Valley Unified (LEAID `0633860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.65780, -117.61444
- **Phone**: (949)888-7311

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 950
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 28.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 27.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 55.0% proficient — 559 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 9.7% (94 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.4% (43 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**: 28.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.6% — 120 students
- **English Learners**: 7.7% — 73 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 35 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 18 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,918
- **Federal share**: $1,361
- **State + local share**: $16,557
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 950
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,527,429
- **Federal share**: 7.9%
- **State share**: 29.5%
- **Local share**: 62.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,193,686

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $197,132
- **Poverty rate**: 4.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 53.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,634
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.1 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.31 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Trabuco Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 9.2% (this school: 9.7%)
- **Portola Hills Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 9.7%)
- **Trabuco Mesa Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 9.4% (this school: 9.7%)
- **Tijeras Creek Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 8.9% (this school: 9.7%)
- **Arroyo Vista Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 9.5% (this school: 9.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate** — 1.8 mi away, 62.05% (this school: 60.5%)
- **Portola Hills Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 71.9% (this school: 60.5%)
- **Trabuco Mesa Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 71.7% (this school: 60.5%)
- **Tijeras Creek Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 71.65% (this school: 60.5%)
- **Arroyo Vista Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 71.5% (this school: 60.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Portola Hills Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Trabuco Mesa Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Tijeras Creek Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Arroyo Vista Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Philip J. Reilly Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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