# La Mesa Junior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064251003268`
- **School name**: La Mesa Junior High
- **Location**: Santa Clarita, CA 91351
- **Address**: 26623 May Way
- **District**: William S. Hart Union High (LEAID `0642510`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.40782, -118.48311
- **Phone**: (661)250-0022
- **Website**: https://www.lamesajuniorhigh.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,017
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.6% proficient — 950 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.2% (173 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.3% (56 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (15 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**: 32.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.4% — 178 students
- **English Learners**: 14.2% — 145 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 85 students
- **Autism**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 29 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 19 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,315
- **Federal share**: $1,945
- **State + local share**: $16,370
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,023
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,539,260
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 59.6%
- **Local share**: 28.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,851,245

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,434
- **Poverty rate**: 13.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,081
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.8 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.32 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY FOUNDA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.35987 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Golden Valley High** — 0.8 mi away, 1.91% (this school: 16.2%)
- **Sierra Vista Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 15.7% (this school: 16.2%)
- **Cedarcreek Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 6.9% (this school: 16.2%)
- **Rio Vista Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 4.4% (this school: 16.2%)
- **Canyon High** — 1.6 mi away, 1.02% (this school: 16.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Golden Valley High** — 0.8 mi away, 54.3% (this school: 49.8%)
- **Valley View Community Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66.25% (this school: 49.8%)
- **Sierra Vista Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 57.25% (this school: 49.8%)
- **Rio Vista Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 50.2% (this school: 49.8%)
- **Canyon High** — 1.6 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 49.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Valley View Community Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Sierra Vista Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Skyblue Mesa Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Leona H. Cox Community Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Golden Oak Community** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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