# Vanguard Preparatory

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/vanguard-preparatory-apple-valley/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/vanguard-preparatory-apple-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060001711122`
- **School name**: Vanguard Preparatory
- **Location**: Apple Valley, CA 92308
- **Address**: 12951 Mesquite Rd.
- **District**: Apple Valley Unified (LEAID `0600017`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.48730, -117.16340
- **Phone**: (760)961-1066

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,153
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.0% proficient — 810 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.9% (203 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.0% (215 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 48.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 3.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.1% — 95 students
- **English Learners**: 9.1% — 107 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 37 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,404
- **Federal share**: $1,686
- **State + local share**: $13,718
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,174
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,813,543
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 72.2%
- **Local share**: 13.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,211,634

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $47,118
- **Poverty rate**: 30.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,021
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.6 miles (GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.06 miles (FORMER NUWAY DRY CLEANING SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GOLDEN STATE WATER CO - BARSTOW
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.08853 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Granite Hills High** — 1.5 mi away, 1.79% (this school: 16.9%)
- **Apple Valley High** — 2.0 mi away, 1.43% (this school: 16.9%)
- **Sandia Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 3.62% (this school: 16.9%)
- **Excelsior Charter** — 6.0 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 16.9%)
- **Endeavour School of Exploration** — 6.5 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 16.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Granite Hills High** — 1.5 mi away, 49.55% (this school: 38.5%)
- **Apple Valley High** — 2.0 mi away, 39.65% (this school: 38.5%)
- **Sitting Bull Academy** — 4.2 mi away, 39.3% (this school: 38.5%)
- **Rio Vista School of Applied Learning** — 5.1 mi away, 39.65% (this school: 38.5%)
- **Excelsior Charter** — 6.0 mi away, 39.45% (this school: 38.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Endeavour School of Exploration** — 6.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Academy for Academic Excellence** — 7.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Mountain View Montessori Charter** — 7.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy** — 7.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Sixth Street Prep** — 8.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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