# Joe Walker Middle

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/joe-walker-middle-lancaster

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064212006890`
- **School name**: Joe Walker Middle
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93536
- **Address**: 5632 West Ave. L-8
- **District**: Westside Union Elementary (LEAID `0642120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.65177, -118.23054
- **Phone**: (661)943-3258

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 781
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.9% proficient — 756 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.3% (193 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.3% (61 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (5 students) [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**: 61.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 102 students
- **English Learners**: 4.0% — 33 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 42 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 31 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,867
- **Federal share**: $1,047
- **State + local share**: $13,820
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 818
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,011,678
- **Federal share**: 7.1%
- **State share**: 65.5%
- **Local share**: 27.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,904,110

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,641
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,524
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 28.4 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 27.71 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAND PROJECTS MUTUAL WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 108
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Quartz Hill High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Academies of the Antelope Valley** — 0.9 mi away, 12.8% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 1.9 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Hillview Middle** — 2.5 mi away, 16% (this school: 22.3%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 3.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Quartz Hill High** — 0.6 mi away, 50.65% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Academies of the Antelope Valley** — 0.9 mi away, 48.4% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 57.55% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 1.9 mi away, 71.25% (this school: 41.45%)
- **Rancho Vista Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 48.7% (this school: 41.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho Vista Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 3.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Leona Valley Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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