# San Fernando Institute of Applied Media

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271013108`
- **School name**: San Fernando Institute of Applied Media
- **Location**: San Fernando, CA 91340
- **Address**: 130 North Brand Blvd.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.28333, -118.43707
- **Phone**: (818)837-5455
- **Website**: http://sfiam.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 384
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.9%

## 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)**: 39.0% proficient — 337 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.3% (71 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.8% (35 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.7% — 71 students
- **English Learners**: 20.5% — 74 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 47 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,477
- **Federal share**: $3,164
- **State + local share**: $18,313
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 361
### 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**: $72,569
- **Poverty rate**: 15.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.7%
- **Unemployment**: 7.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,605
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.1 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 11
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 63
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.89 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN FERNANDO-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Morningside Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 17.2% (this school: 19.3%)
- **San Fernando Senior High** — 0.8 mi away, 2.03% (this school: 19.3%)
- **Mission Continuation** — 0.9 mi away, 8.85% (this school: 19.3%)
- **Cesar E. Chavez Lrng Acads-Acad of Scientific Explr (ASE)** — 1.0 mi away, 0.69% (this school: 19.3%)
- **Cesar E. Chavez Lrng Acads-Soc Just Humanitas Acad** — 1.0 mi away, 1.56% (this school: 19.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **PUC Nueva Esperanza Charter Academy** — 0.3 mi away, 31.3% (this school: 29.5%)
- **Morningside Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 35.2% (this school: 29.5%)
- **O'Melveny Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 33% (this school: 29.5%)
- **San Fernando Senior High** — 0.8 mi away, 30.05% (this school: 29.5%)
- **Vaughn Next Century Learning Center** — 0.8 mi away, 53.75% (this school: 29.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Vaughn Next Century Learning Center** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Vista del Valle Dual Language Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Dyer Street Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Pacoima Charter Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **PUC Community Charter Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-fernando-institute-of-applied-media-san-fernando/workforce

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