# Dr. Walter C. Ralston Intermediate

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061488001856`
- **School name**: Dr. Walter C. Ralston Intermediate
- **Location**: Garden Grove, CA 92840
- **Address**: 10851 East Lampson Ave.
- **District**: Garden Grove Unified (LEAID `0614880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.78172, -117.94327
- **Phone**: (714)663-6366
- **Website**: http://ralston.ggusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 485
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 53.2% proficient — 485 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.9% (68 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.8% (16 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 48.4%
- **Black/African American**: 41.2%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.4% — 83 students
- **English Learners**: 26.5% — 134 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,244
- **Federal share**: $4,473
- **State + local share**: $18,771
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 506
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,636,255
- **Federal share**: 12.9%
- **State share**: 56.8%
- **Local share**: 30.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,538,200

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $98,705
- **Poverty rate**: 10.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,287
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 109
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.46 miles (GARDEN GROVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF GARDEN GROVE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ethel M. Evans Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 9.7% (this school: 12.9%)
- **Garden Grove High** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.9%)
- **Faylane Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 12% (this school: 12.9%)
- **Excelsior Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 11.3% (this school: 12.9%)
- **Jordan Secondary Learning Center** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Garden Grove High** — 0.4 mi away, 65.1% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Brookhurst Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 64.05% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Louis Lake Intermediate** — 1.0 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Ocia A. Peters Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66.8% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Excelsior Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 64.15% (this school: 59.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Brookhurst Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Ocia A. Peters Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **James Irvine Intermediate** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Ponderosa Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Ethan B. Allen Elementary** — 3.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dr-walter-c-ralston-intermediate-garden-grove/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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