# Southwest Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/southwest-middle-san-diego

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063864006491`
- **School name**: Southwest Middle
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92154
- **Address**: 2710 Iris St.
- **District**: Sweetwater Union High (LEAID `0638640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.56953, -117.07383
- **Phone**: (619)628-4000
- **Website**: https://www.sweetwaterschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 515
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.5% proficient — 443 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.6% (111 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.1% (154 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.3% (11 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**: 72.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.4% — 84 students
- **English Learners**: 57.8% — 279 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 53 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $7,975,247
- **Federal share**: $785,395
- **State + local share**: $7,189,852
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 483
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,289,767
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 58.4%
- **Local share**: 32.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,297,535

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,833
- **Poverty rate**: 24.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.8%
- **Unemployment**: 7.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,344
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 53.2 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.73 miles (DAVIES PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.5048 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Nestor Language Academy Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 13.3% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Southwest Senior High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Sunnyslope Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 20.5% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Emory Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 15.2% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Montgomery Senior High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 21.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Nestor Language Academy Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 62.75% (this school: 37.25%)
- **Southwest Senior High** — 0.6 mi away, 42.75% (this school: 37.25%)
- **Emory Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 41.95% (this school: 37.25%)
- **Montgomery Senior High** — 1.2 mi away, 60.1% (this school: 37.25%)
- **Montgomery Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 40.6% (this school: 37.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Nestor Language Academy Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Emory Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Montgomery Senior High** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Mar Vista Academy** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Juarez-Lincoln Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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