# West Cottonwood Junior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060999001086`
- **School name**: West Cottonwood Junior High
- **Location**: Cottonwood, CA 96022
- **Address**: 20512 West First St.
- **District**: Cottonwood Union Elementary (LEAID `0609990`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 40.38599, -122.29192
- **Phone**: (530)347-3123
- **Website**: http://west.cwusd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 419
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Yellow
  - chronic_absent: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.5% proficient — 369 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.8% (78 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.1% (102 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (4 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 3.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 1.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 71.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 51.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.8% — 31 students
- **English Learners**: 1.8% — 7 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,494
- **Federal share**: $1,519
- **State + local share**: $15,975
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 395
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,529,412
- **Federal share**: 16.2%
- **State share**: 61.3%
- **Local share**: 22.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,492,375

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,609
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,506
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.3 miles (IRON MOUNTAIN MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.63 miles (GREYHOUND BUS TERMINAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: RIO ALTO WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.08607 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Cottonwood Creek Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 7.1% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Evergreen Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 15.3% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Evergreen Middle** — 2.8 mi away, 16.2% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Evergreen Community Day School (5-8)** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Evergreen Community Day School (K-5)** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Cottonwood Creek Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 71.8% (this school: 50.25%)
- **Evergreen Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 50.6% (this school: 50.25%)
- **Evergreen Middle** — 2.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 50.25%)
- **Anderson High** — 4.1 mi away, 62.05% (this school: 50.25%)
- **Anderson New Technology High** — 4.6 mi away, 60.4% (this school: 50.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Cottonwood Creek Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **North Cottonwood** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Evergreen Middle** — 2.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Anderson High** — 4.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Anderson New Technology High** — 4.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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