# Carmenita Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060162000007`
- **School name**: Carmenita Middle
- **Location**: Cerritos, CA 90703
- **Address**: 13435 East 166th St.
- **District**: ABC Unified (LEAID `0601620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.88120, -118.04610
- **Phone**: (562)229-7775
- **Website**: https://www.carmenitams.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 639
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 68.4% proficient — 616 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 6.3% (40 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.1%
- **Black/African American**: 55.1%
- **Asian**: 6.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.2% — 45 students
- **English Learners**: 6.2% — 39 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,534
- **Federal share**: $1,988
- **State + local share**: $16,546
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 627
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,956,800
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 68.2%
- **Local share**: 22.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,513,526

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $147,794
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 53.0%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,968
- **Foreign-born residents**: 46.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.4 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 15
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 136
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.15 miles (LOS ANGELES CADA CENTERS FOR ALCOHOL DRUG ABU)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CERRITOS - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Gonsalves (Joe A.) Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 4.9% (this school: 6.3%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 0.5 mi away, 2.7% (this school: 6.3%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 6.3%)
- **Cerritos Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 2.2% (this school: 6.3%)
- **Tracy (Wilbur) High (Continuation)** — 1.4 mi away, 0.93% (this school: 6.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Gonsalves (Joe A.) Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 74.2%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 0.5 mi away, 85.4% (this school: 74.2%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 76.35% (this school: 74.2%)
- **Oxford Academy** — 4.0 mi away, 83.25% (this school: 74.2%)
- **Los Alamitos High** — 5.0 mi away, 75.7% (this school: 74.2%)

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