# Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271012438`
- **School name**: Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90033
- **Address**: 1200 Plaza Del Sol
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.04854, -118.22695
- **Phone**: (323)981-5400
- **Website**: https://www.mendezhs.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5441770 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicitas_and_Gonzalo_Mendez_High_School
- **Founded**: 2009

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 694
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.0% proficient — 171 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.2% (cohort of 215)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 230)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.6% (188 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (9 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.2% — 204 students
- **English Learners**: 11.9% — 93 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 96 students
- **Autism**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,783
- **Federal share**: $5,009
- **State + local share**: $20,774
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 779
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $43,125
- **Poverty rate**: 40.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.6%
- **Unemployment**: 11.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,425
- **Foreign-born residents**: 48.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.6 miles (EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES VERNON)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 9
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 245
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.17 miles (MONO AND ANDERSON)

### 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**: 12.1636 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Puente Charter** — 0.6 mi away, 43.9% (this school: 34%)
- **Bridge Street Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 35.9% (this school: 34%)
- **Math Science & Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 34%)
- **Hollenbeck Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 46.95% (this school: 34%)
- **Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts** — 1.3 mi away, 68.85% (this school: 34%)

### graduation rate
- **Theodore Roosevelt Senior High** — 1.1 mi away, 95.9% (this school: 90.2%)
- **Math Science & Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High** — 1.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 90.2%)
- **Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts** — 1.3 mi away, 91.6% (this school: 90.2%)
- **Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High** — 1.5 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 90.2%)
- **Ednovate - Brio College Prep** — 1.6 mi away, 95.7% (this school: 90.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Second Street Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Bridge Street Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ann Street Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Math Science & Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Hollenbeck Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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