# Casimir Middle

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063942006555`
- **School name**: Casimir Middle
- **Location**: Torrance, CA 90504
- **Address**: 17220 Casimir Ave.
- **District**: Torrance Unified (LEAID `0639420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.87400, -118.32150
- **Phone**: (310)533-4498

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 617
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 57.1% proficient — 610 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.5% (35 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (4 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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.6% — 66 students
- **English Learners**: 13.4% — 84 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,830
- **Federal share**: $711
- **State + local share**: $15,119
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 625
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,192,478
- **Federal share**: 9.8%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,520,994

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $103,352
- **Poverty rate**: 13.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,227
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.2 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 226
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.71 miles (ALBERTSON SHOPPING CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TORRANCE-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 5.5%)
- **North High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.5%)
- **New Millennium Secondary** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.5%)
- **Gardena Senior High** — 1.6 mi away, 0.92% (this school: 5.5%)
- **Moneta Continuation** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 66.2% (this school: 61.55%)
- **Arlington Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 72% (this school: 61.55%)
- **Yukon Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 65.45% (this school: 61.55%)
- **One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 69.15% (this school: 61.55%)
- **North High** — 1.1 mi away, 72.4% (this school: 61.55%)

### math proficiency
- **Arlington Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Evelyn Carr Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Yukon Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Philip Magruder Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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