# Independence Continuation

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independence-continuation-lake-balboa/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independence-continuation-lake-balboa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003100`
- **School name**: Independence Continuation
- **Location**: Lake Balboa, CA 91406
- **Address**: 6501 Balboa Blvd.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.18966, -118.50165
- **Phone**: (818)881-7737
- **Website**: https://independencechs.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 103
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 5
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.3%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 18.8% proficient — 27 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 53.1% (cohort of 64)
- **2021**: 24.5% (cohort of 55)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 97.5% (119 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.2% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.6% (9 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.8% — 20 students
- **English Learners**: 11.8% — 14 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,445
- **Federal share**: $5,518
- **State + local share**: $22,927
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 119
### 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**: $106,890
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,003
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.6 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 49
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.04 miles (DELANO PARK)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Daniel Pearl Journalism & Communications Magnet** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.2%)
- **Birmingham Community Charter High** — 0.2 mi away, 0.87% (this school: 4.2%)
- **High Tech LA** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.2%)
- **Zane Grey Continuation** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.2%)
- **Ivy Bound Acad of Math Sci and Tech Charter Mid** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Daniel Pearl Journalism & Communications Magnet** — 0.1 mi away, 49.25% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Lake Balboa College Preparatory Magnet K-12** — 0.2 mi away, 42.7% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Birmingham Community Charter High** — 0.2 mi away, 70.7% (this school: 18.8%)
- **High Tech LA** — 0.3 mi away, 73.15% (this school: 18.8%)
- **William Mulholland Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 39.3% (this school: 18.8%)

### graduation rate
- **Daniel Pearl Journalism & Communications Magnet** — 0.1 mi away, 88.9% (this school: 53.1%)
- **Lake Balboa College Preparatory Magnet K-12** — 0.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 53.1%)
- **Birmingham Community Charter High** — 0.2 mi away, 96.1% (this school: 53.1%)
- **High Tech LA** — 0.3 mi away, 92.2% (this school: 53.1%)
- **Magnolia Science Academy 2** — 0.3 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 53.1%)

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