# Sherman Thomas Charter

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060246711160`
- **School name**: Sherman Thomas Charter
- **Location**: Madera, CA 93638
- **Address**: 101 West Adell St.
- **District**: Sherman Thomas Charter District (LEAID `0602467`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 36.98333, -120.06885
- **Phone**: (559)674-1192

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 233
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 10
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.1% proficient — 135 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 8.3% (18 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.8% (8 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 76.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.9%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 19.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 59.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.5% — 25 students
- **English Learners**: 5.0% — 11 students

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,325,472
- **Federal share**: 13.1%
- **State share**: 74.3%
- **Local share**: 12.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,476,415

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $63,929
- **Poverty rate**: 21.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,221
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.3 miles (INDUSTRIAL WASTE PROCESSING)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.45 miles (ROAD 28 PROPOSED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MADERA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-07-06

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.11189 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sherman Thomas Charter High** — 0.0 mi away, 2.82% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 0.2 mi away, 1.3% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Matilda Torres High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.24% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Mountain Vista High** — 1.8 mi away, 3.05% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Madera High** — 2.0 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 8.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sherman Thomas Charter High** — 0.0 mi away, 51.7% (this school: 37.55%)
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 0.2 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 37.55%)
- **Matilda Torres High** — 0.6 mi away, 57.7% (this school: 37.55%)
- **Jack G. Desmond Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 37.55%)
- **Nishimoto Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 37.8% (this school: 37.55%)

### math proficiency
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 0.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Berenda Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Parkwood Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ranchos Middle** — 9.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Dairyland Elementary** — 13.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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