# Petaluma Junior High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/petaluma-junior-high-petaluma

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063025004724`
- **School name**: Petaluma Junior High
- **Location**: Petaluma, CA 94952
- **Address**: 700 Bantam Way
- **District**: Petaluma Joint Union High (LEAID `0630250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 38.23205, -122.65776
- **Phone**: (707)778-4724
- **Website**: https://www.petalumajuniorhigh.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 454
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 46.4% proficient — 401 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.5% (74 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.6% (13 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 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**: 44.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.4% — 96 students
- **English Learners**: 8.4% — 36 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 69 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,276
- **Federal share**: $762
- **State + local share**: $18,514
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 428
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $112,050
- **Poverty rate**: 5.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 57.0%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,329
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.6 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.76 miles (FORMER COTIJA RESTAURANT)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 3.44393 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Valley Vista Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 2.08% (this school: 16.5%)
- **Petaluma High** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.5%)
- **Carpe Diem High (Continuation)** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.5%)
- **Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley** — 0.8 mi away, 13.6% (this school: 16.5%)
- **McNear Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 16.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Petaluma High** — 0.7 mi away, 51.2% (this school: 49.2%)
- **Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley** — 0.8 mi away, 60.2% (this school: 49.2%)
- **McNear Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 58.8% (this school: 49.2%)
- **Petaluma Accelerated Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 78.1% (this school: 49.2%)
- **Live Oak Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 54% (this school: 49.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Petaluma High** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Mary Collins Charter School at Cherry Valley** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **McNear Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Petaluma Accelerated Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Live Oak Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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

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