# Van Nuys Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/van-nuys-middle-van-nuys/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/van-nuys-middle-van-nuys

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003422`
- **School name**: Van Nuys Middle
- **Location**: Van Nuys, CA 91411
- **Address**: 5435 Vesper Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.16943, -118.45133
- **Phone**: (818)267-5900
- **Website**: https://www.vannuysms.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 726
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.6% proficient — 733 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.6% (192 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.1% (171 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (6 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.7% — 150 students
- **English Learners**: 28.9% — 232 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 82 students
- **Autism**: 41 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,522
- **Federal share**: $5,131
- **State + local share**: $18,391
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 803
### 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**: $96,818
- **Poverty rate**: 5.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.6%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,150
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.9 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 61
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.97 miles (DELANO PARK)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **High Tech LA Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 2.8% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Kester Avenue Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 13.6% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Chandler Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Sylvan Park Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 20.3% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Ivy Bound Acad of Math Sci and Tech Charter Mid** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Kester Avenue Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 74.15% (this school: 45.8%)
- **Chandler Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 68.3% (this school: 45.8%)
- **Hesby Oaks Leadership Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 72.4% (this school: 45.8%)
- **Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 60.05% (this school: 45.8%)
- **Van Nuys Senior High** — 1.4 mi away, 66.25% (this school: 45.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Kester Avenue Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Chandler Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Hesby Oaks Leadership Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Sherman Oaks Elementary Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Van Nuys Senior High** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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