# PUC Early College Academy for Leaders and Scholars (ECALS)

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060213512869`
- **School name**: PUC Early College Academy for Leaders and Scholars (ECALS)
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90065
- **Address**: 2050 San Fernando Rd.
- **District**: PUC Early College Acad for Leaders and Scholars (ECALS) DIST (LEAID `0602135`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.10251, -118.23897
- **Phone**: (323)276-5525

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 195
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.7% proficient — 44 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.7% (cohort of 54)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 68)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (1 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 96.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.2% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 15.8% — 34 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,845,188
- **Federal share**: 23.4%
- **State share**: 55.9%
- **Local share**: 20.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,305,439

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,760
- **Poverty rate**: 20.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 44.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,626
- **Foreign-born residents**: 49.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.1 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 4)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 71
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.50 miles (TAYLOR YARD AREA A A2)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES-CITY, DEPT. OF WATER & POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1636 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Renaissance Arts Academy** — 0.4 mi away, 72.9% (this school: 54.35%)
- **California Creative Learning Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 55.85% (this school: 54.35%)
- **Dorris Place Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 60.1% (this school: 54.35%)
- **Elysian Heights ES Arts Magnet** — 1.1 mi away, 65.1% (this school: 54.35%)
- **Atwater Avenue Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 63% (this school: 54.35%)

### graduation rate
- **Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High** — 0.0 mi away, 93.8% (this school: 90.7%)
- **Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet** — 0.0 mi away, 98% (this school: 90.7%)
- **Renaissance Arts Academy** — 0.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 90.7%)
- **Alliance Leichtman-Levine FAM Foundation Env Sci High** — 0.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 90.7%)
- **John Marshall Senior High** — 2.2 mi away, 93.2% (this school: 90.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Renaissance Arts Academy** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **California Creative Learning Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Dorris Place Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Aragon Avenue Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Elysian Heights ES Arts Magnet** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/puc-early-college-academy-for-leaders-and-scholars-ecals-los-angeles/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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