Merced County Special EducationPublicMerced, CAGrades TK-12942 students
Merced County Special Education: A special education center. No Scope Score publishes here.
A Scope Score ranks schools a family can choose between. At Merced County Special Education, students are placed here by an IEP team, not by address and not by lottery — so a comparative rank would measure something a family's choice never entered. We show what California reports and hold the rank.
special education center
no score · no band · no rank — enrollment assigned, not chosen
942 students · placed by an IEP team
Every figure below is California's own, reported for this school and shown without a rank. Why we withhold a score →
Merced County Special Education is a special education center in Merced, California. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, performance band, archetype or ranking for schools where enrollment is assigned rather than chosen, so its CDE CAASPP 2025 results appear here unranked.
58 students were tested here on last year's CAASPP. 4.5% met or exceeded the standard; 0.0% exceeded it.
Chronic absenteeism ran 32.7%; the suspension rate was 3.1%. California reports both the same way it does for every school — this page just doesn't rank them here.
If a placement here is part of a child's IEP, this page is background, not the decision — the IEP team meeting is where fit actually gets decided.
- Ask how this placement was determined, and what the annual IEP review looks at.
- Ask what related services — speech, occupational therapy, counseling — are provided on site.
- Ask how and when a return to a less-restrictive setting gets reconsidered.
This school against the California average
| % Exceeded | % Met+ | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 0% | 5% | 32.7% | 3.1% |
| CA average · Middle School (for reference) | 17% | 40% | 18.1% | 3.6% |
How every group of students does here
12 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
ShowHide Student-group results by grade
Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
ShowHide California's growth model by student group
California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.
— 2 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.
Kids here miss more school, and get suspended less, than the state average.
ShowHide attendance by student group and by grade
About 13 students for every teacher here.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
ShowHide what the district pays
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
It spends $69,570 per student, more than the California average.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
$3,545 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
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Two-thirds of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 3% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.
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Nearby schools
Nearby public schools across grade levels.
California's own growth model splits here — the 1st percentile in reading against the 45th in math, among middle schools.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well below the middle of California middle schools in reading, and the 45th in math. We show it; we don't score it.
— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.
Every number on this page
Everything California reports about this school, shown without a rank — grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, climate, and the nearest schools.
| Factor | School | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 0.0% | 17.2% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 4.5% | 40.0% | 23% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 32.7% | 18.1% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 3.1% | 3.6% | 5% |
- Exceeded standard
- vs CA 17.2%
- Met or exceeded
- vs CA 40.0%
- Chronic absenteeism
- vs CA 18.1%
- Suspension rate
- vs CA 3.6%
ShowHide table 02 — By grade & subgroup
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 8 | 11 | 0% | 9% | 9% | 82% | 9% |
| Grade 11 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 8 | 11 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| Grade 11 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 29 | 0% | 3% | 28% | 69% |
CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.
| School | Dist | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merced County Special Education ← | — | 0.0% | 4.5% | — | — | 3.1% |
| California average | — | 17.2% | 40.0% | +1.5pp | — | 3.6% |
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
| Year | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 46.3% | 3.3% |
| 2024 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 34.1% | 3.0% |
| 2025 | 0.0% | 4.5% | 32.7% | 3.1% |
- — No Scope Score, performance band, archetype, or state rank publishes for this school — enrollment here is assigned, not chosen, so a comparative rank would mean something different than it does for a neighborhood school. See the Enrollment Axiom at /methodology#peer-class.
- — No subgroup comparison could be shown for this school this year — either its group sizes fall under CDE's 15-student reporting floor, or district/state comparison data wasn't available for its groups.
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
| Group | 2019 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Female | 41.2% | 54.6% |
| Male | 31.4% | 50.6% |
| Asian | 26.3% | 35.4% |
| Black/African American | 50.0% | 56.5% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 36.2% | 52.6% |
| Two or More Races | 28.6% | 56.5% |
| White | 27.3% | 48.5% |
| Students with Disabilities | 34.6% | 51.8% |
| English Learners | 32.5% | 55.4% |
| Foster Youth | 33.3% | 48.0% |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 34.9% | 52.9% |
| All Students | 34.3% | 51.8% |
| Homeless | — | 72.2% |
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | −34 | 34 | Minimal | −1 | 34 | Average |
| Students with Disabilities | −32 | 34 | Minimal | 0 | 34 | Average |
| English Only | −37 | 30 | not categorised | −4 | 30 | not categorised |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | −31 | 28 | Minimal | −6 | 28 | Moderate |
| Hispanic or Latino | −38 | 24 | Minimal | −10 | 24 | Moderate |
Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.
EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18
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