Public school / Other
Merced County Special Education
Merced, California
- NCES ID
- 069102007147
- School type
- Special education
- Title I
- Not designated
Merced County Special Education is a public other school in Merced, California, run by Merced County Office of Education. It enrols 848 students — the 12401st largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
848
Teachers
72.0
Students per teacher
11.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
60.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Merced County Office of Education
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Merced County Special Education848 students
- 2Merced Scholars Charter281 students
- 3Valley Merced Community232 students
- 4Valley Los Banos Community138 students
- 5Come Back Charter102 students
- 6Floyd A. Schelby73 students
- 7Merced County Juvenile Court23 students
- 8Valley Atwater Community9 students
- Enrollment+78.9%
- Teachers+242.9%
- Students per teacher−46.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−10.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory