# Buena Park Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/buena-park-middle-buena-park/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/buena-park-middle-buena-park

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060636000553`
- **School name**: Buena Park Middle
- **Location**: Buena Park, CA 90620
- **Address**: 6931 Orangethorpe Ave.
- **District**: Buena Park Elementary (LEAID `0606360`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.86010, -118.01350
- **Phone**: (714)522-8491

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 633
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.9% proficient — 589 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.7% (146 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.2% (150 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.0% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.5% (16 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 79.1%
- **Black/African American**: 10.1%
- **Asian**: 2.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.5% — 118 students
- **English Learners**: 46.5% — 297 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 45 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,009
- **Federal share**: $1,967
- **State + local share**: $19,042
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 638
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,543,213
- **Federal share**: 11.3%
- **State share**: 51.5%
- **Local share**: 37.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,070,984

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,899
- **Poverty rate**: 10.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.8%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,847
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 13
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 133
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.76 miles (LOS ALAMITOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF BUENA PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arthur F. Corey Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 18.7% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Raymond Temple Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 15% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Buena Terra Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 7.2% (this school: 21.7%)
- **George B. Miller Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 9.8% (this school: 21.7%)
- **Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 14.8% (this school: 21.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Arthur F. Corey Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 44.4% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Raymond Temple Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 58.8% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Buena Terra Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 65% (this school: 38.95%)
- **George B. Miller Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 61.5% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 50.9% (this school: 38.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Arthur F. Corey Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Raymond Temple Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Buena Terra Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **George B. Miller Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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