# First Avenue Middle

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/first-avenue-middle-arcadia

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060297000228`
- **School name**: First Avenue Middle
- **Location**: Arcadia, CA 91006
- **Address**: 301 South First Ave.
- **District**: Arcadia Unified (LEAID `0602970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.13625, -118.02896
- **Phone**: (626)821-8362
- **Wikidata QID**: Q135100125 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Avenue_Middle_School
- **Founded**: 1907

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 771
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 32.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 64.1% proficient — 660 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.3% (39 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **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**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.9%
- **Black/African American**: 71.8%
- **Asian**: 2.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 35.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.9% — 56 students
- **English Learners**: 8.2% — 58 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,094
- **Federal share**: $1,757
- **State + local share**: $15,337
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 707
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,156,650
- **Federal share**: 9.1%
- **State share**: 36.2%
- **Local share**: 54.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,731,111

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $92,697
- **Poverty rate**: 11.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.5%
- **Unemployment**: 7.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,906
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.8 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 53
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.31 miles (KINNELOA AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ARCADIA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-02-11

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arcadia High** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.3%)
- **Monrovia High** — 1.0 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 5.3%)
- **Camino Grove Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 3.6% (this school: 5.3%)
- **Highland Oaks Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 4.5% (this school: 5.3%)
- **Temple City High** — 2.4 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 5.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Monrovia High** — 1.0 mi away, 71.35% (this school: 65.05%)
- **Camino Grove Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 67% (this school: 65.05%)
- **Highland Oaks Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 73.85% (this school: 65.05%)
- **Baldwin Stocker Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 72.1% (this school: 65.05%)
- **Mayflower Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 67.9% (this school: 65.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Arcadia High** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Holly Avenue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Foothills Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Santa Fe Computer Science Magnet** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Highland Oaks Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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