# Palmdale Aerospace Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palmdale-aerospace-academy-palmdale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060194513029`
- **School name**: Palmdale Aerospace Academy
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93550
- **Address**: 3300 East Palmdale Blvd.
- **District**: Palmdale Aerospace Academy District (LEAID `0601945`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.57938, -118.06860
- **Phone**: (661)273-3680

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,259
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 90
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.5% proficient — 1,169 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.5% (cohort of 200)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 212)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 10

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 36.0% (476 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.5% (361 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: 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**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 84.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 5.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.8% — 194 students
- **English Learners**: 15.7% — 347 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,666,522
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 83.7%
- **Local share**: 6.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,559,117

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,143
- **Poverty rate**: 25.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,701
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.7 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 28.00 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Manzanita Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 30.3% (this school: 36%)
- **Cactus Medical Health and Technology Magnet Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 33% (this school: 36%)
- **Palmdale High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 36%)
- **Mesquite Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 35.1% (this school: 36%)
- **Innovations Academy of Palmdale** — 1.5 mi away, 24.8% (this school: 36%)

### ela proficiency
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 55.95% (this school: 41.25%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 3.5 mi away, 57.4% (this school: 41.25%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 3.5 mi away, 56.4% (this school: 41.25%)
- **Highland High** — 6.2 mi away, 41.7% (this school: 41.25%)
- **Anaverde Hills** — 6.4 mi away, 48.3% (this school: 41.25%)

### graduation rate
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 9.7 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 98.5%)
- **Vasquez High** — 10.3 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 98.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Quail Valley Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 3.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 3.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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