# Palmdale Academy Charter

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958014567`
- **School name**: Palmdale Academy Charter
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93550
- **Address**: 3838 East Ave. R
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.57235, -118.06020
- **Phone**: (661)234-4800
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/pacs

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 989
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.5% proficient — 207 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.0%

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $42,792
- **Federal share**: $3,761
- **State + local share**: $39,031
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 751
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,574,168
- **Federal share**: 18.4%
- **State share**: 70.2%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,260,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $66,190
- **Poverty rate**: 23.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.2%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,510
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.4 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 27.54 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 37.25%)
- **Antelope Valley Learning Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 37.4% (this school: 37.25%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 55.95% (this school: 37.25%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 2.9 mi away, 57.4% (this school: 37.25%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 4.0 mi away, 56.4% (this school: 37.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Mesquite Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Chaparral Prep Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Shadow Hills Engineering and Design Magnet Academy** — 2.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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