# Pinon Mesa Middle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063697008987`
- **School name**: Pinon Mesa Middle
- **Location**: Phelan, CA 92329
- **Address**: 9298 Sheep Creek Rd.
- **District**: Snowline Joint Unified (LEAID `0636970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.41760, -117.57310
- **Phone**: (760)868-3126
- **Website**: https://www.snowlineschools.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 835
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.9% proficient — 718 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 26.8% (236 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.2% (106 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (13 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**: 67.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.2% — 140 students
- **English Learners**: 11.0% — 89 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 100 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,624
- **Federal share**: $2,381
- **State + local share**: $13,243
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 812
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,844,433
- **Federal share**: 8.5%
- **State share**: 76.7%
- **Local share**: 14.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,937,435

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $84,471
- **Poverty rate**: 9.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.8%
- **Unemployment**: 15.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,564
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.3 miles (GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 17.89 miles (FORMER NUWAY DRY CLEANING SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PHELAN PINON HILLS CSD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.08853 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Snowline Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 12.1% (this school: 26.8%)
- **Chaparral High** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 26.8%)
- **Serrano High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 26.8%)
- **Mojave River Academy - Marble City** — 0.8 mi away, 2.5% (this school: 26.8%)
- **Heritage** — 2.9 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 26.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Serrano High** — 0.4 mi away, 48.85% (this school: 36.45%)
- **Heritage** — 2.9 mi away, 60.15% (this school: 36.45%)
- **Wrightwood Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 59.6% (this school: 36.45%)
- **Quail Valley Middle** — 6.7 mi away, 36.55% (this school: 36.45%)
- **Baldy Mesa Elementary** — 7.1 mi away, 36.8% (this school: 36.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Serrano High** — 0.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Heritage** — 2.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Wrightwood Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Mesquite Trails Elementary** — 12.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Cobalt Institute of Math and Science** — 12.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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

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