# Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lancaster-alternative-and-virtual-academies-lancaster

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062088005857`
- **School name**: Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93534
- **Address**: 44034 13th St. West
- **District**: Lancaster Elementary (LEAID `0620880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.68309, -118.15440
- **Phone**: (661)488-7600
- **Website**: https://www.lavaschool.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 282
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.3% proficient — 141 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 3.7% (14 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 65.8% (77 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (4 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**: 93.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.7% — 15 students
- **English Learners**: 1.1% — 3 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,788
- **Federal share**: $3,271
- **State + local share**: $19,517
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 263
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,511,305
- **Federal share**: 19.3%
- **State share**: 64.4%
- **Local share**: 16.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,846,020

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,688
- **Poverty rate**: 18.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.9%
- **Unemployment**: 8.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,505
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.9 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 31.56 miles (ONATE 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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Empower Generations** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.7%)
- **Antelope Valley High** — 1.8 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 3.7%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.7%)
- **Lancaster High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 3.7%)
- **Desert Winds Continuation High** — 2.2 mi away, 2.25% (this school: 3.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Desert Sands Charter** — 0.6 mi away, 40.35% (this school: 37.15%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 47.1% (this school: 37.15%)
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 37.15%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 1.9 mi away, 75.65% (this school: 37.15%)
- **Lancaster High** — 2.1 mi away, 38.45% (this school: 37.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Sunnydale Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **iLEAD Lancaster Charter** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **El Dorado Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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