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Monterey County Special EducationPublicSalinas, CAGrades TK-12274 students

Monterey County Special Education: A special education center. No Scope Score publishes here.

A Scope Score ranks schools a family can choose between. At Monterey 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

274 students · placed by an IEP team

SchoolScope has no scored record for this school, so there is nothing here to rank either way. Why we withhold a score →

Monterey County Special Education is a special education center in Salinas, California. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, performance band, archetype or ranking for schools where enrollment is assigned rather than chosen.

SchoolScope holds no scored record for Monterey County Special Education this year — no Scope Score, band or rank — so there is no picture to draw beyond the figures on this page.

Worth a conversation

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.
The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 7 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher7 · district 21
Teaching staff50 teachers
Avg. experience14.1 years
Fully credentialed42%
Intern / emergency permit2.3%
PrincipalBeth Arrabia
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Teacher salary schedule$58,298 – $123,910
Principal salaryFrom $159,163
Superintendent salary$301,004

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

What gets spent · FY 2016–17

It spends $72,089 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$2,514 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $72,089, CA average $14,491$72,089 · spent at this school
Federal share$2,514 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 36%Instruction support 30%Student services 11%Administration 19%Buildings & maintenance 4%

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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district detail, 2016–2017 — the newest published
2017$47,089 per pupil
2016$45,403 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Who is enrolled

Three in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

On the state's science test (CAST), 0% 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.

Hispanic or Latino88.7% · district 63.1% · CA 56.1%
White4.4% · district 24.0% · CA 19.9%
Black1.5% · district 1.2% · CA 4.8%
Other5.5% · district 9.7% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 30.3% · Male 69.7%
Free or reduced lunch62.0% · CA 64%
Nearby schools
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 2nd percentile of elementary 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 elementary schools in reading and math together. 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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −47 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 1st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.1st pctile · −47 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −21 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 5th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.5th pctile · −21 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field
Data source: California Department of Education. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, band or rank for this school for 2025 — enrollment, staffing, and finance figures above are CDE's own current data. Data updated 2026-09-27.methodology · data updates · report issue

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