Merced City School District

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Merced City School District
Address
444 West 23rd Street
Merced
, California, 95340
United States
District information
TypePublic
GradesK–8 [1]
NCES District ID 0624600 [1]
Students and staff
Students10,800 [1]
Teachers423.47 [1]
Staff517.71 [1]
Student–teacher ratio25.5 [1]
Other information
Website www.mcsd.k12.ca.us

Merced City School District (MCSD) is a school district in California, United States. Its headquarters are in Merced. [2]

Contents

History

Diana Jimenez served as the superintendent beginning in July 2022, [3] and until 2023, when all of the board members agreed to end her term. [4]

Demographics

In the 2008–2009 school year, the district had 2,211 native Spanish speaking students who were classified as English learners, making up 74% of the district's population of English learners. The district also had 1,107 native Spanish speaking students who were proficient in English. The second largest English learner demographic, native Hmong speakers, had 628 students, making up 21% of the district's English learner population. The district also had 291 students who spoke Hmong as a first language and who were proficient in English. [5]

In January 1983, 10% of the student body of the MCSD was Asian. Most of those students were ethnic Hmong refugees. In a span of less than two years ending in January 1983, over 750 refugee Hmong and Laotian students entered the MCSD. [6] Dave Small, the superintendent of the MCSD, said that the number is "the size of one school—a good-sized school at that." [7]

Schools

Middle schools

Elementary schools

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