# Environmental Charter Middle - Gardena

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/environmental-charter-middle-gardena-gardena

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060170812673`
- **School name**: Environmental Charter Middle - Gardena
- **Location**: Gardena, CA 90247
- **Address**: 812 West 165th Pl.
- **District**: Environmental Charter Middle - Gardena District (LEAID `0601708`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 33.88046, -118.28989
- **Phone**: (310)425-1605

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 360
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.5% proficient — 337 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.2% (83 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.4% (43 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 81.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 13.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 88.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.9% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 16.7% — 60 students

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,105,714
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 58.4%
- **Local share**: 30.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,322,857

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $75,324
- **Poverty rate**: 20.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,431
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 20
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 302
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.35 miles (VACANT PROPERTY WITH UNKNOWN FILL SOIL PILES)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **New Millennium Secondary** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Gardena Senior High** — 0.9 mi away, 0.92% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Moneta Continuation** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Amestoy Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 21.3% (this school: 22.2%)
- **One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 12.6% (this school: 22.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Robert E. Peary Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 37.15% (this school: 31.25%)
- **Denker Avenue Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 33.75% (this school: 31.25%)
- **New Millennium Secondary** — 0.9 mi away, 39.9% (this school: 31.25%)
- **Amestoy Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 31.7% (this school: 31.25%)
- **One Hundred Eighty-Sixth Street Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 33.1% (this school: 31.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Robert E. Peary Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Amestoy Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Arlington Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Casimir Middle** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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