# Valadez Middle School Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/valadez-middle-school-academy-placentia

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063066012371`
- **School name**: Valadez Middle School Academy
- **Location**: Placentia, CA 92870
- **Address**: 161 East La Jolla St.
- **District**: Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified (LEAID `0630660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.85960, -117.87090
- **Phone**: (714)986-7440

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 527
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.6% proficient — 528 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.7% (151 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.3% (72 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (24 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.3% (35 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**: 96.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.7% — 104 students
- **English Learners**: 44.9% — 250 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,055
- **Federal share**: $2,480
- **State + local share**: $17,575
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 557
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,772,456
- **Federal share**: 8.1%
- **State share**: 41.2%
- **Local share**: 50.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,976,793

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,531
- **Poverty rate**: 20.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,061
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 26
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 194
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.62 miles (VINEYARD TOWNHOMES VINE STREET APARTMENTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: YORBA LINDA WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Melrose Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 15% (this school: 25.7%)
- **Sunkist Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 24.8% (this school: 25.7%)
- **Kraemer Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 12.9% (this school: 25.7%)
- **John O. Tynes Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 19% (this school: 25.7%)
- **Valencia High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.62% (this school: 25.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Melrose Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 43.7% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Rio Vista Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52.35% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Kraemer Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 72.45% (this school: 38.3%)
- **John O. Tynes Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 65.45% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Valencia High** — 1.3 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 38.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Rio Vista Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Kraemer Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **John O. Tynes Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Valencia High** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Ladera Vista Junior High School of the Arts** — 1.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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

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