# Pajaro Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062949004547`
- **School name**: Pajaro Middle
- **Location**: Watsonville, CA 95076
- **Address**: 250 Salinas Rd.
- **District**: Pajaro Valley Unified (LEAID `0629490`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.89924, -121.74903
- **Phone**: (831)728-6238

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 398
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.5%

## 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)**: 29.3% proficient — 262 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 24.7% (74 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.8% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.7% (25 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.5% (13 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.2% — 75 students
- **English Learners**: 77.6% — 222 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 73 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 286
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,285,950
- **Federal share**: 12.9%
- **State share**: 56.5%
- **Local share**: 30.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,654,812

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $63,715
- **Poverty rate**: 14.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.9%
- **Unemployment**: 12.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,672
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.8 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.38 miles (GILROY MONTEREY RD 7301 7363)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WATSONVILLE, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.00551 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ceiba College Preparatory Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 15.7% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Linscott Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 9% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Watsonville Prep** — 0.9 mi away, 23.7% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Watsonville High** — 1.0 mi away, 3.77% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Radcliff Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 24% (this school: 24.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ceiba College Preparatory Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 31.45% (this school: 24.65%)
- **Linscott Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 65.95% (this school: 24.65%)
- **Watsonville Prep** — 0.9 mi away, 32.8% (this school: 24.65%)
- **Watsonville High** — 1.0 mi away, 27.9% (this school: 24.65%)
- **Ann Soldo Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 25.2% (this school: 24.65%)

### math proficiency
- **Linscott Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 2.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Watsonville Charter School of the Arts** — 4.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Aromas** — 5.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Elkhorn Elementary** — 7.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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