# Vera Risdon Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530723003603`
- **School name**: Vera Risdon Middle School
- **Location**: Newcastle, WA 98056
- **Address**: 6928 116th Ave SE
- **District**: Renton School District (LEAID `5307230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 47.54095, -122.18438
- **Phone**: (425)204-2700

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 751
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 6
  - proficiency_math_decile: 7
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 6.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 7
  - growth_math_decile: 6
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 6.5
  - el_progress_decile: 3
  - regularattendance_decile: 7
  - sqss_combined_decile: 7
  - _2025_score: 6.35
  - overall: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.6% (215 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.5%
- **Black/African American**: 24.6%
- **Asian**: 5.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 30.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 10.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 38.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 124 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 43 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,281
- **Federal share**: $1,158
- **State + local share**: $17,123
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 761
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,424,233
- **Federal share**: 9.8%
- **State share**: 56.5%
- **Local share**: 33.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,483,214

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $220,964
- **Poverty rate**: 1.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 74.7%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,124
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.9 miles (QUENDALL TERMINALS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.90 miles (QUENDALL TERMINALS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: COAL CREEK UTILITY DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.89831 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hazelwood Elementary School** — 0.2 mi away, 5.07% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Newport Heights Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 6.9% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Newcastle Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 3.59% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Kennydale Elementary School** — 1.7 mi away, 12.48% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Newport Senior High School** — 1.9 mi away, 2.66% (this school: 23.6%)

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