# Lemon Grove Academy for the Sciences and Humanities

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062133002549`
- **School name**: Lemon Grove Academy for the Sciences and Humanities
- **Location**: Lemon Grove, CA 91945
- **Address**: 7866 Lincoln St.
- **District**: Lemon Grove (LEAID `0621330`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.73924, -117.02904
- **Phone**: (619)825-5628
- **Website**: https://lgam.lemongrovesd.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 516
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.1% proficient — 466 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 36.8% (204 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.5% (184 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.9% (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**: 73.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 27.6% — 144 students
- **English Learners**: 60.5% — 316 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 69 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,711
- **Federal share**: $2,902
- **State + local share**: $17,809
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 522
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,015,389
- **Federal share**: 14.9%
- **State share**: 58.9%
- **Local share**: 26.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,848,569

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,529
- **Poverty rate**: 12.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.0%
- **Unemployment**: 16.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,090
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 43.2 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.98 miles (SECOND CHANCE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.25112 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lemon Grove Academy Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 35.7% (this school: 36.8%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 19.1% (this school: 36.8%)
- **San Miguel Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 29.4% (this school: 36.8%)
- **La Mesa Arts Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 12.3% (this school: 36.8%)
- **Helix High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 36.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Lemon Grove Academy Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 40.5% (this school: 39.55%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 45.8% (this school: 39.55%)
- **San Miguel Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 50.95% (this school: 39.55%)
- **La Mesa Arts Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 69.55% (this school: 39.55%)
- **Helix High** — 1.1 mi away, 75.8% (this school: 39.55%)

### math proficiency
- **San Miguel Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **La Mesa Arts Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Helix High** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Vista La Mesa Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Rolando Park Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-grove/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lemon-grove-academy-for-the-sciences-and-humanities-lemon-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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