# Cesar E. Chavez Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062949011463`
- **School name**: Cesar E. Chavez Middle
- **Location**: Watsonville, CA 95076
- **Address**: 440 Arthur Rd.
- **District**: Pajaro Valley Unified (LEAID `0629490`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 36.92105, -121.76972
- **Phone**: (831)761-7699

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 548
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.1%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 23.9% proficient — 520 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 36.6% (207 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.7% (126 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (18 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**: 91.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.3% — 18 students
- **English Learners**: 44.4% — 243 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 68 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 547
### 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**: $86,838
- **Poverty rate**: 14.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.6%
- **Unemployment**: 14.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,711
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.7 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.55 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**: 12.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Starlight Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 23.6% (this school: 36.6%)
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 36.6%)
- **H. A. Hyde Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 28.2% (this school: 36.6%)
- **Landmark Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 31.2% (this school: 36.6%)
- **New School Community Day** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 36.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Starlight Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 31.4% (this school: 23.9%)
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 0.3 mi away, 61% (this school: 23.9%)
- **H. A. Hyde Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 25.85% (this school: 23.9%)
- **Freedom Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 26.7% (this school: 23.9%)
- **Rolling Hills Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 26.6% (this school: 23.9%)

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