# Verdugo Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/verdugo-academy-glendale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061524000440`
- **School name**: Verdugo Academy
- **Location**: Glendale, CA 91207
- **Address**: 1700 East Mountain St.
- **District**: Glendale Unified (LEAID `0615240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.16412, -118.22757
- **Phone**: (818)548-0740

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 135
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 7
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.6% proficient — 71 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 77.8% (cohort of 27)
- **2021**: 84.5% (cohort of 37)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.9% (16 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.1% (20 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.7%
- **Black/African American**: 8.6%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 71.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 55.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.7% — 15 students
- **English Learners**: 6.4% — 11 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,905
- **Federal share**: $6,048
- **State + local share**: $12,857
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 173
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,160,699
- **Federal share**: 20.4%
- **State share**: 50.7%
- **Local share**: 28.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,462,148

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $118,843
- **Poverty rate**: 6.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,190
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.20 miles (7053 FIGUEROA)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Verdugo Woodlands Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 6.3% (this school: 13.9%)
- **Glendale High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 13.9%)
- **Jewel City Community Day** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.9%)
- **Daily (Allan F.) High (Continuation)** — 1.7 mi away, 11.11% (this school: 13.9%)
- **Eagle Rock Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 12.7% (this school: 13.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Verdugo Woodlands Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 63.6% (this school: 39.8%)
- **Woodrow Wilson Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 41.9% (this school: 39.8%)
- **Glenoaks Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 50.65% (this school: 39.8%)
- **R. D. White Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 43.1% (this school: 39.8%)
- **John Muir Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 48% (this school: 39.8%)

### graduation rate
- **Glendale High** — 1.3 mi away, 92.6% (this school: 77.8%)
- **Herbert Hoover High** — 2.4 mi away, 96.1% (this school: 77.8%)
- **Eagle Rock High** — 2.5 mi away, 95.6% (this school: 77.8%)
- **PUC CALS Middle School and Early College High** — 3.0 mi away, 92.2% (this school: 77.8%)
- **La Canada High** — 3.4 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 77.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Verdugo Woodlands Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Woodrow Wilson Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Glenoaks Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **R. D. White Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Columbus Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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