# Sal Castro Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sal-castro-middle-los-angeles/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sal-castro-middle-los-angeles

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271012483`
- **School name**: Sal Castro Middle
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90026
- **Address**: 1575 West 2nd St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.06154, -118.26328
- **Phone**: (213)241-4416
- **Website**: https://www.salcastroms.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 276
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.8%

## 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)**: 30.7% proficient — 275 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.1% (65 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.2% (75 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.6% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 97.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.1% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 31.2% — 97 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,384
- **Federal share**: $3,608
- **State + local share**: $19,776
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 311
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,660
- **Poverty rate**: 25.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,179
- **Foreign-born residents**: 40.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 39.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.5 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 4)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 145
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.18 miles (PWC FAMILY HOUSING LP)

### 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**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Harris Newmark Continuation** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.1%)
- **Belmont Senior High** — 0.0 mi away, 10.86% (this school: 19.1%)
- **Alliance Ted K. Tajima High** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.1%)
- **N.E.W. Academy of Science and Arts** — 0.3 mi away, 12.4% (this school: 19.1%)
- **School of Business and Tourism at Contreras Learning Complex** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Alliance Ted K. Tajima High** — 0.2 mi away, 66.85% (this school: 25.35%)
- **N.E.W. Academy of Science and Arts** — 0.3 mi away, 30.35% (this school: 25.35%)
- **Gratts Learning Academy for Young Scholars (GLAYS)** — 0.3 mi away, 29.9% (this school: 25.35%)
- **Union Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 30.45% (this school: 25.35%)
- **School of Business and Tourism at Contreras Learning Complex** — 0.3 mi away, 53.95% (this school: 25.35%)

### math proficiency
- **Alliance Ted K. Tajima High** — 0.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **N.E.W. Academy of Science and Arts** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **School of Business and Tourism at Contreras Learning Complex** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Downtown Business High** — 0.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Betty Plasencia Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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