# Leona Jackson

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/leona-jackson-paramount

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062985010906`
- **School name**: Leona Jackson
- **Location**: Paramount, CA 90723
- **Address**: 7220 Jackson St.
- **District**: Paramount Unified (LEAID `0629850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.88520, -118.17230
- **Phone**: (562)602-8020

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 517
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.3% proficient — 570 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.1% (159 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.6% (110 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (6 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**: 96.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.5% — 95 students
- **English Learners**: 28.7% — 176 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 70 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,072
- **Federal share**: $2,701
- **State + local share**: $20,371
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 613
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,464,286
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 67.2%
- **Local share**: 17.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,102,128

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $59,201
- **Poverty rate**: 14.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,646
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.2 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 18
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 196
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.34 miles (THUNDERBOLT ENGINEERING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PARAMOUNT - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wesley Gaines** — 0.1 mi away, 22% (this school: 25.1%)
- **Frank J. Zamboni** — 0.5 mi away, 22.3% (this school: 25.1%)
- **Mark Keppel** — 0.8 mi away, 21.4% (this school: 25.1%)
- **Manuel Dominguez High** — 0.8 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 25.1%)
- **Cesar Chavez Continuation High** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 25.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Wesley Gaines** — 0.1 mi away, 32.5% (this school: 31.15%)
- **Hamilton Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 39.45% (this school: 31.15%)
- **Frank J. Zamboni** — 0.5 mi away, 31.45% (this school: 31.15%)
- **Mark Keppel** — 0.8 mi away, 40% (this school: 31.15%)
- **Manuel Dominguez High** — 0.8 mi away, 36.8% (this school: 31.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Mark Keppel** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Abraham Lincoln** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Paramount Virtual Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Los Cerritos** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Howard Tanner** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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