# Griffith Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003058`
- **School name**: Griffith Middle
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90022
- **Address**: 4765 East Fourth St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.03115, -118.16145
- **Phone**: (323)266-7400
- **Website**: https://griffithmagms.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,070
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 52
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.2% proficient — 1,006 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.5% (286 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.2% (187 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.5% — 200 students
- **English Learners**: 16.5% — 178 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 122 students
- **Autism**: 32 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,061
- **Federal share**: $4,109
- **State + local share**: $18,952
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,079
### 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**: $68,721
- **Poverty rate**: 13.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,336
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.6 miles (EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES VERNON)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 283
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.62 miles (WHITTIER LA VERNE PARKING LOT)

### 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**: 4.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SIATech Academy South** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 25.5%)
- **Monterey Continuation** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 25.5%)
- **James A. Garfield Senior High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 25.5%)
- **Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 23.9% (this school: 25.5%)
- **Fourth Street Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 19.4% (this school: 25.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Morris K. Hamasaki Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 44.55% (this school: 41.1%)
- **Robert Hill Lane Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 44.85% (this school: 41.1%)
- **Brightwood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 42.2% (this school: 41.1%)
- **KIPP Poder Public** — 1.3 mi away, 41.95% (this school: 41.1%)
- **Bella Vista Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 47.8% (this school: 41.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Fourth Street Primary Center** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **KIPP Poder Public** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Monterey Highlands Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **City Terrace Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Macy Intermediate** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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