# Edward J. Richardson Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/edward-j-richardson-middle-torrance

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063942002214`
- **School name**: Edward J. Richardson Middle
- **Location**: Torrance, CA 90505
- **Address**: 23751 Nancy Lee Ln.
- **District**: Torrance Unified (LEAID `0639420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.81050, -118.36760
- **Phone**: (310)533-4790

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 651
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 18.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 67.7% proficient — 633 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 6.2% (41 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.2% (15 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 17.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.1% — 59 students
- **English Learners**: 8.9% — 58 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,079
- **Federal share**: $533
- **State + local share**: $15,546
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 649
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,192,478
- **Federal share**: 9.8%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,520,994

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $158,958
- **Poverty rate**: 3.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,951
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.8 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 86
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.56 miles (KEN MALLOY HARBOR REGIONAL PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TORRANCE-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **South High** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.2%)
- **Seaside Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 4.9% (this school: 6.2%)
- **Joseph Arnold Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 5.1% (this school: 6.2%)
- **Walteria Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 4.8% (this school: 6.2%)
- **Alta Vista Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 5.7% (this school: 6.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Silver Spur Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 77.9% (this school: 73.85%)
- **Cornerstone at Pedregal Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 77.85% (this school: 73.85%)
- **Montemalaga Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 73.85%)
- **Soleado Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 76.7% (this school: 73.85%)
- **Redondo Union High** — 2.6 mi away, 75.8% (this school: 73.85%)

### math proficiency
- **Seaside Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Tulita Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Joseph Arnold Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Walteria Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Silver Spur Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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