# Palmdale Discovery Center

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palmdale-discovery-center-palmdale/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palmdale-discovery-center-palmdale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958013975`
- **School name**: Palmdale Discovery Center
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93551
- **Address**: 39174 Palm Tree Way
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.59480, -118.15491
- **Phone**: (661)947-0181
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/pdc

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 246
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.8% proficient — 71 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 55.4% (123 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.1% (60 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (3 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**: 78.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 59.3% — 128 students
- **English Learners**: 5.1% — 11 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,516
- **Federal share**: $2,374
- **State + local share**: $21,142
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 216
### 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**: $87,500
- **Poverty rate**: 3.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,599
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.2 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 26.36 miles (ONATE SITE)

### 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**: 9.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 0.1 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Summerwind Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 40.2% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 27.2% (this school: 55.4%)
- **David G. Millen Law and Government Magnet Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 34% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Highland High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 55.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 0.1 mi away, 40.4% (this school: 39.9%)
- **Highland High** — 1.2 mi away, 41.7% (this school: 39.9%)
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 55.4% (this school: 39.9%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 2.0 mi away, 56.4% (this school: 39.9%)
- **Anaverde Hills** — 2.5 mi away, 48.3% (this school: 39.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 2.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho Vista Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 4.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 4.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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