Summary:
The city of Mentone, California has only one public elementary school, Mentone Elementary, which serves students from kindergarten to 5th grade. Mentone Elementary is part of the Redlands Unified School District. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom half of California elementary schools and underperforms compared to the district and state averages in academic achievement, including English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science.
Mentone Elementary faces significant socioeconomic challenges, with 79.72% of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The school also has a relatively high student-teacher ratio of 24.8 to 1. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate was 19.0% in the 2022-2023 school year, which is an area that could be targeted for improvement.
Overall, the data suggests that Mentone Elementary requires targeted interventions and support to address its academic underperformance and socioeconomic factors that may be impacting student outcomes. While there are no other schools in the data set to compare, the school's consistent underperformance compared to district and state averages indicates a need for the school and district to focus on improving educational opportunities and outcomes for the students of Mentone Elementary.
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