# Valencia Academy of the Arts

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/valencia-academy-of-the-arts-pico-rivera

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061218001386`
- **School name**: Valencia Academy of the Arts
- **Location**: Pico Rivera, CA 90660
- **Address**: 9241 East Cosgrove St.
- **District**: El Rancho Unified (LEAID `0612180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.98895, -118.08680
- **Phone**: (562)801-7670
- **Website**: https://www.erusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 398
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.4%

## 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)**: 49.8% proficient — 178 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.0% (94 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.3% (52 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (2 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 96.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.1% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 16.4% — 65 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,108
- **Federal share**: $1,019
- **State + local share**: $20,089
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 397
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,342,572
- **Federal share**: 14.0%
- **State share**: 61.8%
- **Local share**: 24.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,082,228

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $114,310
- **Poverty rate**: 6.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,860
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.9 miles (OMEGA CHEMICAL CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 187
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.45 miles (CHAPIN ROAD LANDFILL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PICO RIVERA - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ruben Salazar Continuation** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 23%)
- **El Rancho High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 23%)
- **Rio Vista Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 21.9% (this school: 23%)
- **South Ranchito Dual Language Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 19% (this school: 23%)
- **Rivera Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 21.3% (this school: 23%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rio Vista Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 44.2% (this school: 43.9%)
- **Daniel Phelan Language Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 47% (this school: 43.9%)
- **Pioneer High** — 1.3 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 43.9%)
- **Montebello Gardens Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 44.4% (this school: 43.9%)
- **Ada S. Nelson Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 44.95% (this school: 43.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Whittier High** — 2.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Unsworth (Edith) Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Gallatin Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Price (Maude) Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Griffiths (Gordon) Middle** — 3.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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