# Cheney Middle School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cheney-middle-school-cheney

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530123000224`
- **School name**: Cheney Middle School
- **Location**: CHENEY, WA 99004
- **Address**: 740 Betz
- **District**: Cheney School District (LEAID `5301230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 47.50663, -117.57954
- **Phone**: (509)559-4400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 637
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 3: Comprehensive
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 2
  - proficiency_math_decile: 2
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 2
  - growth_ela_decile: 2
  - growth_math_decile: 2
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 2
  - el_progress_decile: 2
  - regularattendance_decile: 3
  - sqss_combined_decile: 3
  - _2025_score: 2.05
  - overall: Tier 3: Comprehensive

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.7% (191 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 5
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 1.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 74.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 55.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.3% — 101 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,916
- **Federal share**: $661
- **State + local share**: $15,255
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 602
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,013,251
- **Federal share**: 11.4%
- **State share**: 65.4%
- **Local share**: 23.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,315,789

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,250
- **Poverty rate**: 31.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.5%
- **Unemployment**: 12.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,168
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.0 miles (FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE 4 WASTE AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.33 miles (RIVER FRONT PROPERTIES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.89555 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Salnave Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 27.78% (this school: 30.66%)
- **Three Springs High School** — 3.0 mi away, 30.65% (this school: 30.66%)
- **Medical Lake Middle School** — 6.2 mi away, 22.16% (this school: 30.66%)
- **Hallett Elementary School** — 6.3 mi away, 20.8% (this school: 30.66%)
- **Phil Snowdon Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 30.11% (this school: 30.66%)

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