Key Takeaways
Merced is a low performance, low disparity, less populous county.
Merced is the lowest performing county in the state as measured by the RACE COUNTS performance index.
More than 80% of elected officials at the state and county level in Merced are White, even though people of color comprise nearly 70% of the county population.
Merced Black and Pacific Islander students are roughly twice as likely to be chronically absent as Filipino, Asian, and White students.