# Innovations Academy of Palmdale

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/innovations-academy-of-palmdale-palmdale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958013949`
- **School name**: Innovations Academy of Palmdale
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93550
- **Address**: 37230 37th St. East
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.55908, -118.06077
- **Phone**: (661)236-0161
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/ia

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 409
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 29.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 29.4% proficient — 262 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 24.8% (166 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.5% (40 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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 87.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.6% — 20 students
- **English Learners**: 3.7% — 16 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,913
- **Federal share**: $2,136
- **State + local share**: $15,777
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 431
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,574,168
- **Federal share**: 18.4%
- **State share**: 70.2%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,260,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $79,375
- **Poverty rate**: 18.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,641
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.5 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 26.62 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Antelope Valley Learning Academy** — 1.0 mi away, 7.4% (this school: 24.8%)
- **Desert Willow Fine Arts Sci and Tech Magnet Acad** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 24.8%)
- **Palmdale High** — 1.9 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 24.8%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 2.9 mi away, 13.3% (this school: 24.8%)
- **William J. (Pete) Knight High** — 3.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 24.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Mesquite Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 36.3% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Cactus Medical Health and Technology Magnet Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 26.9% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Cimarron Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 26.25% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Palmdale Academy Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 37.25% (this school: 24.7%)
- **Antelope Valley Learning Academy** — 1.0 mi away, 37.4% (this school: 24.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Mesquite Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Chaparral Prep Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Quail Valley Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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

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