# Shadow Hills Engineering and Design Magnet Academy

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958007529`
- **School name**: Shadow Hills Engineering and Design Magnet Academy
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93552
- **Address**: 37315 60th St. East
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.56070, -118.02400
- **Phone**: (661)533-7400
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/sh

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 813
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 31.4% proficient — 797 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 29.1% (272 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.1% (216 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (13 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.7% — 155 students
- **English Learners**: 20.7% — 181 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 75 students
- **Autism**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,489
- **Federal share**: $2,915
- **State + local share**: $16,574
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 874
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,574,168
- **Federal share**: 18.4%
- **State share**: 70.2%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,260,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,218
- **Poverty rate**: 5.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.5%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,920
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.2 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 26.96 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**: 14.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 0.8 mi away, 13.3% (this school: 29.1%)
- **William J. (Pete) Knight High** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 29.1%)
- **Antelope Valley Learning Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 7.4% (this school: 29.1%)
- **Innovations Academy of Palmdale** — 2.1 mi away, 24.8% (this school: 29.1%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 28.3% (this school: 29.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 0.8 mi away, 57.4% (this school: 34.7%)
- **Buena Vista Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 35% (this school: 34.7%)
- **Antelope Valley Learning Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 37.4% (this school: 34.7%)
- **Mesquite Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 36.3% (this school: 34.7%)
- **Palmdale Academy Charter** — 2.2 mi away, 37.25% (this school: 34.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Quail Valley Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 6.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 7.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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