# John W. Mack Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-w-mack-elementary-los-angeles

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271010882`
- **School name**: John W. Mack Elementary
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90007
- **Address**: 3020 South Catalina St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.02664, -118.29342
- **Phone**: (323)730-7620
- **Website**: https://johnmackes.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 283
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 31.3% proficient — 125 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 28.6% (86 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.8% (63 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.4% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 48.9% — 131 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,142
- **Federal share**: $8,659
- **State + local share**: $27,483
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 268
### 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**: $26,421
- **Poverty rate**: 59.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 43.0%
- **Unemployment**: 14.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,414
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.9 miles (EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES VERNON)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 156
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.35 miles (FORMER BETHUNE LIBRARY SITE)

### 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**: 4.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Vermont Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 27.3% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts** — 0.6 mi away, 20.7% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Dr. Theodore T. Alexander Jr. Science Center** — 0.9 mi away, 24.5% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Ednovate - USC Hybrid High College Prep** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Alliance Gertz-Ressler Richard Merkin 6-12 Complex** — 0.9 mi away, 15.3% (this school: 28.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Vermont Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 41.7% (this school: 25.65%)
- **Leadership & Public Service Virtual Academy** — 0.3 mi away, 31.5% (this school: 25.65%)
- **STEM Preparatory Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 29.2% (this school: 25.65%)
- **Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 37.7% (this school: 25.65%)
- **Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts** — 0.6 mi away, 43.9% (this school: 25.65%)

### math proficiency
- **Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Thirty-Second Street USC Performing Arts** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Crown Preparatory Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Magnolia Avenue Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **John Adams Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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