# Virtual Academy of the Arts & Entertainment

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/virtual-academy-of-the-arts-entertainment-carson/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/virtual-academy-of-the-arts-entertainment-carson

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271014635`
- **School name**: Virtual Academy of the Arts & Entertainment
- **Location**: Carson, CA 90746
- **Address**: 1254 East Helmick St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.85058, -118.25072
- **Phone**: (424)444-0488
- **Website**: https://aevs.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 878
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 22.8% proficient — 469 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 64.4% (cohort of 118)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 59.4% (370 students) [source: ca_dashboard]

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.2%

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,598
- **Federal share**: $3,144
- **State + local share**: $15,454
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 894
### 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**: $127,614
- **Poverty rate**: 7.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.5%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,391
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.2 miles (DEL AMO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 296
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.36 miles (CARSON CITY HALL RENOVATION)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Glenn Hammond Curtiss Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 22.9% (this school: 59.4%)
- **Magnolia Science Academy 3** — 0.1 mi away, 27.3% (this school: 59.4%)
- **Annalee Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 20.5% (this school: 59.4%)
- **Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet** — 0.7 mi away, 17.2% (this school: 59.4%)
- **Leapwood Avenue Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 17.9% (this school: 59.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Glenn Hammond Curtiss Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 28.9% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Magnolia Science Academy 3** — 0.1 mi away, 30.2% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Annalee Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 44.85% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet** — 0.7 mi away, 28% (this school: 21.4%)
- **Leapwood Avenue Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 28.9% (this school: 21.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Magnolia Science Academy 3** — 0.1 mi away, 93.9% (this school: 64.4%)
- **California Academy of Mathematics and Science** — 0.7 mi away, 97.6% (this school: 64.4%)
- **Rancho Dominguez Preparatory** — 2.3 mi away, 92.8% (this school: 64.4%)
- **Carson Senior High** — 2.4 mi away, 92.2% (this school: 64.4%)
- **Academies of Education and Empowerment at Carson High** — 2.4 mi away, 93.1% (this school: 64.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Annalee Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Broadacres Avenue Elementary Visual & Performing Arts Magnet** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Leapwood Avenue Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **California Academy of Mathematics and Science** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Towne Avenue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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