# Challenger Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/challenger-middle-lancaster/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/challenger-middle-lancaster

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064281009208`
- **School name**: Challenger Middle
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93535
- **Address**: 41725 North 170th St. East
- **District**: Wilsona Elementary (LEAID `0642810`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.64095, -117.82826
- **Phone**: (661)264-1790

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 403
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 27.1% proficient — 493 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 35.9% (212 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 34.1% (185 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (12 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**: 96.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.7% — 76 students
- **English Learners**: 27.1% — 150 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 43 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,065
- **Federal share**: $292
- **State + local share**: $7,773
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 553
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,421,824
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 69.3%
- **Local share**: 15.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,260,586

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $61,184
- **Poverty rate**: 15.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.2%
- **Unemployment**: 9.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,255
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.6 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 31.33 miles (FORMER NUWAY DRY CLEANING 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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lake Los Angeles Elementary** — 3.8 mi away, 27.9% (this school: 35.9%)
- **Littlerock High** — 7.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 35.9%)
- **Daisy Gibson Elementary** — 8.6 mi away, 30.8% (this school: 35.9%)
- **Antelope Elementary** — 9.1 mi away, 32.8% (this school: 35.9%)
- **Pearblossom Elementary** — 10.7 mi away, 32.2% (this school: 35.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 11.6 mi away, 57.4% (this school: 53.55%)
- **Tierra Bonita Elementary** — 14.9 mi away, 56.7% (this school: 53.55%)

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