# Benjamin Franklin Senior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003021`
- **School name**: Benjamin Franklin Senior High
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90042
- **Address**: 820 North Avenue 54
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.11599, -118.19881
- **Phone**: (323)550-2000
- **Website**: https://www.franklinhs.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5491559 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_High_School_(Los_Angeles)
- **Founded**: 1916

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,284
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 71
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.4% proficient — 383 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.3% (cohort of 322)
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 283)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 8.3% (10 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.0% (160 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (9 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.2% — 178 students
- **English Learners**: 6.7% — 91 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 115 students
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,153
- **Federal share**: $3,993
- **State + local share**: $18,160
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,350
### 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**: $109,250
- **Poverty rate**: 5.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.1%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,025
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.2 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 4)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 66
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.15 miles (7047 FIGUEROA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES-CITY, DEPT. OF WATER & POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1636 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Highland Park Continuation** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Los Angeles College Prep Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 7.32% (this school: 8.3%)
- **San Pascual Elem Sci Tech Engr Arts And Math (STEAM) Magnet** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Arroyo Vista Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 5.1% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Monterey Hills Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 3.5% (this school: 8.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Arroyo Seco Museum Science** — 1.0 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 62.2%)
- **Eagle Rock High** — 1.2 mi away, 69.25% (this school: 62.2%)
- **Mt. Washington Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 71.1% (this school: 62.2%)
- **Rockdale Visual & Performing Arts Magnet** — 1.2 mi away, 68.4% (this school: 62.2%)
- **Dahlia Heights Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 72.65% (this school: 62.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Sotomayor Arts and Sciences Magnet** — 2.5 mi away, 98% (this school: 96.3%)
- **Renaissance Arts Academy** — 2.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 96.3%)
- **South Pasadena Senior High** — 2.6 mi away, 98.2% (this school: 96.3%)
- **Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High** — 4.0 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 96.3%)
- **John Muir High** — 4.8 mi away, 96.5% (this school: 96.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Aldama Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Arroyo Seco Museum Science** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Eagle Rock High** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Mt. Washington Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Rockdale Visual & Performing Arts Magnet** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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