# David G. Millen Law and Government Magnet Academy

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958013052`
- **School name**: David G. Millen Law and Government Magnet Academy
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93551
- **Address**: 39221 22nd St. West
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.59499, -118.17060
- **Phone**: (661)947-3075
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/dgm

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 952
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.4% proficient — 913 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 34.0% (374 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.4% (167 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (18 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**: 83.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.8% — 189 students
- **English Learners**: 16.0% — 161 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 94 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,045
- **Federal share**: $2,692
- **State + local share**: $16,353
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,006
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,574,168
- **Federal share**: 18.4%
- **State share**: 70.2%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,260,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $115,308
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,635
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.2 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 25.87 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Highland High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 34%)
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 17.9% (this school: 34%)
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 1.0 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 34%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 27.2% (this school: 34%)
- **Esperanza Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 24% (this school: 34%)

### ela proficiency
- **Highland High** — 0.4 mi away, 41.7% (this school: 36.2%)
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 55.4% (this school: 36.2%)
- **Palmdale Discovery Center** — 0.9 mi away, 39.9% (this school: 36.2%)
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 1.0 mi away, 40.4% (this school: 36.2%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38.75% (this school: 36.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 2.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho Vista Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 3.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 4.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/david-g-millen-law-and-government-magnet-academy-palmdale/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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