# Richard Henry Dana Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-henry-dana-middle-san-pedro/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-henry-dana-middle-san-pedro

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271002947`
- **School name**: Richard Henry Dana Middle
- **Location**: San Pedro, CA 90731
- **Address**: 1501 South Cabrillo Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.73062, -118.29511
- **Phone**: (310)241-1100
- **Website**: https://www.danams.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,355
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 63
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.0%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.7% proficient — 1,279 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 31.6% (461 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.0% (292 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (19 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.9% — 263 students
- **English Learners**: 9.8% — 136 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 155 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 37 students
- **Autism**: 31 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,221
- **Federal share**: $3,430
- **State + local share**: $16,791
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,391
### 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**: $62,668
- **Poverty rate**: 16.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.2%
- **Unemployment**: 11.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,572
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 35.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.0 miles (DEL AMO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 32
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.06 miles (335 NORTH GAFFEY STREET)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.3449 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **San Pedro Senior High** — 0.3 mi away, 1.01% (this school: 31.6%)
- **Cabrillo Avenue Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 29.7% (this school: 31.6%)
- **Fifteenth Street Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 20.7% (this school: 31.6%)
- **Leland Street Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 27.2% (this school: 31.6%)
- **Port of Los Angeles High** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 31.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **San Pedro Senior High** — 0.3 mi away, 59.75% (this school: 38.7%)
- **Port of Los Angeles High** — 1.0 mi away, 75.6% (this school: 38.7%)
- **Seventh Street Elementary Arts Integration Magnet** — 1.1 mi away, 41.8% (this school: 38.7%)
- **Point Fermin Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 67.7% (this school: 38.7%)
- **White Point Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 59.05% (this school: 38.7%)

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