# Paulding Middle

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paulding-middle-arroyo-grande

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062308003528`
- **School name**: Paulding Middle
- **Location**: Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
- **Address**: 600 Crown Hill St.
- **District**: Lucia Mar Unified (LEAID `0623080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.12620, -120.57130
- **Phone**: (805)474-3500
- **Website**: https://paulding.luciamarschools.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7154818 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulding_Middle_School
- **Founded**: 1906

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 544
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 55.2% proficient — 538 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.7% (85 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.2% (37 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (8 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**: 51.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.2% — 91 students
- **English Learners**: 6.2% — 35 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 44 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,155
- **Federal share**: $1,469
- **State + local share**: $14,686
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 562
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,723,272
- **Federal share**: 10.9%
- **State share**: 30.7%
- **Local share**: 58.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,834,678

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $131,531
- **Poverty rate**: 2.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,348
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.2 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.10 miles (PISMO BEACH BELLO ST 1000)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ARROYO GRANDE UTILITIES DIVISION
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.51747 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arroyo Grande High** — 0.9 mi away, 1.21% (this school: 14.7%)
- **Harloe Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 11.1% (this school: 14.7%)
- **Ocean View Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 5.9% (this school: 14.7%)
- **Fairgrove Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 14.7%)
- **Branch Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 5.8% (this school: 14.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Arroyo Grande High** — 0.9 mi away, 62% (this school: 60.6%)
- **Harloe Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 61.25% (this school: 60.6%)
- **Ocean View Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 65.8% (this school: 60.6%)
- **Branch Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 72.6% (this school: 60.6%)
- **Shell Beach Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 70.25% (this school: 60.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Harloe Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Fairgrove Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Branch Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Shell Beach Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Los Ranchos Elementary** — 7.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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

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