# Amargosa Creek Middle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062088008717`
- **School name**: Amargosa Creek Middle
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93536
- **Address**: 44333 27th St. West
- **District**: Lancaster Elementary (LEAID `0620880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.68846, -118.17982
- **Phone**: (661)729-6064
- **Website**: https://www.lancsd.org/ac

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 859
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Green
  - math: Red
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.3% proficient — 853 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 40.0% (426 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.1% (72 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.5% (24 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.0% — 105 students
- **English Learners**: 7.8% — 74 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 73 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,271
- **Federal share**: $2,871
- **State + local share**: $19,400
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 954
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,511,305
- **Federal share**: 19.3%
- **State share**: 64.4%
- **Local share**: 16.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,846,020

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $94,597
- **Poverty rate**: 18.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,096
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 24.6 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 31.22 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAND PROJECTS MUTUAL WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 108
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lancaster High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 40%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 40%)
- **West Wind Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 27% (this school: 40%)
- **Desert Sands Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 5.94% (this school: 40%)
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 30.3% (this school: 40%)

### ela proficiency
- **Lancaster High** — 0.7 mi away, 38.45% (this school: 36.15%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 0.8 mi away, 75.65% (this school: 36.15%)
- **West Wind Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 39.7% (this school: 36.15%)
- **Desert Sands Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 40.35% (this school: 36.15%)
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 36.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Lancaster High** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **West Wind Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Nancy Cory Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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

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