# Animo Florence-Firestone Charter Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/animo-florence-firestone-charter-middle-los-angeles

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060209614036`
- **School name**: Animo Florence-Firestone Charter Middle
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90001
- **Address**: 8255 Beach St.
- **District**: Animo Florence-Firestone Charter Middle District (LEAID `0602096`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 33.96309, -118.24260
- **Phone**: (323)565-3280

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 437
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 97.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.8% proficient — 424 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.2% (81 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.8% (29 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: 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**: 97.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 2.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.9% — 35 students
- **English Learners**: 22.1% — 98 students

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,115,909
- **Federal share**: 17.0%
- **State share**: 58.3%
- **Local share**: 24.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,650,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $66,287
- **Poverty rate**: 12.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.5%
- **Unemployment**: 11.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,643
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (COOPER DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 310
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.81 miles (GOODYEAR INDUSTRIAL TRACT)

### 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**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Animo Pat Brown** — 0.1 mi away, 0.83% (this school: 18.2%)
- **University Pathways Public Service Academy** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Walnut Park Mid B Sci Tech Engr and Math Acad** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Walnut Park Mid A Sch of Soc Just and Service Lrng** — 0.9 mi away, 1.19% (this school: 18.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Animo Pat Brown** — 0.1 mi away, 36.7% (this school: 31.4%)
- **University Pathways Public Service Academy** — 0.4 mi away, 43.35% (this school: 31.4%)
- **Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy High** — 0.7 mi away, 48.7% (this school: 31.4%)
- **Alliance Collins Family College-Ready High** — 1.1 mi away, 59.2% (this school: 31.4%)
- **Aspire Centennial College Preparatory Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 33.7% (this school: 31.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Graham Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Alliance Collins Family College-Ready High** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **KIPP Philosophers Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Middleton Primary Center** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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