# Merle L. Fuller Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060852000849`
- **School name**: Merle L. Fuller Elementary
- **Location**: Chowchilla, CA 93610
- **Address**: 1101 Monterey Ave.
- **District**: Chowchilla Elementary (LEAID `0608520`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–2
- **Coordinates**: 37.11900, -120.27160
- **Phone**: (559)665-8050

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 508
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.4% proficient — 166 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.2% (110 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.9% (119 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 70.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 1.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 25.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.2% — 39 students
- **English Learners**: 17.4% — 94 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,068
- **Federal share**: $1,496
- **State + local share**: $18,572
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 540
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,960,514
- **Federal share**: 11.4%
- **State share**: 69.4%
- **Local share**: 19.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,961,433

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,825
- **Poverty rate**: 19.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.6%
- **Unemployment**: 9.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,043
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.5 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 17.03 miles (ROAD 28 PROPOSED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CHOWCHILLA CITY WATER DEPT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.39169 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wilson Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 11% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Stephens Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 8.8% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Chowchilla Union High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.47% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Gateway High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Ronald Reagan Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 12.1% (this school: 19.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Wilson Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 37.6% (this school: 37.2%)
- **Chowchilla Union High** — 0.6 mi away, 37.8% (this school: 37.2%)
- **Dairyland Elementary** — 7.3 mi away, 59.05% (this school: 37.2%)
- **Le Grand High** — 7.6 mi away, 42.5% (this school: 37.2%)
- **Le Grand Elementary** — 7.6 mi away, 39.55% (this school: 37.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Dairyland Elementary** — 7.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Alview Elementary** — 12.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Berenda Elementary** — 13.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 14.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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