# Octavia E. Butler Magnet

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/octavia-e-butler-magnet-pasadena

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062994004689`
- **School name**: Octavia E. Butler Magnet
- **Location**: Pasadena, CA 91103
- **Address**: 1505 North Marengo Ave.
- **District**: Pasadena Unified (LEAID `0629940`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.17190, -118.14691
- **Phone**: (626)396-5830
- **Website**: https://oebmagnet.pusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 481
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 31.7% proficient — 492 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.8% (140 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 29.9% (142 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (18 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (9 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**: 82.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.6% — 76 students
- **English Learners**: 22.0% — 114 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,105
- **Federal share**: $4,089
- **State + local share**: $23,016
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 519
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,845,413
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 40.3%
- **Local share**: 45.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,844,313

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,887
- **Poverty rate**: 18.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.8%
- **Unemployment**: 8.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,844
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.70 miles (INTER MODAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PASADENA WATER AND POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Alma Fuerte Public** — 0.8 mi away, 22.2% (this school: 25.8%)
- **John Muir High** — 0.9 mi away, 2.03% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Madison Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 25.5% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Longfellow (Henry W.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 25% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Altadena Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 23.9% (this school: 25.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Longfellow (Henry W.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 64.9% (this school: 55.85%)
- **Altadena Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 57.5% (this school: 55.85%)
- **Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 63% (this school: 55.85%)
- **New Horizon School Pasadena** — 1.3 mi away, 61.25% (this school: 55.85%)
- **OCS - South** — 1.8 mi away, 61.45% (this school: 55.85%)

### math proficiency
- **Longfellow (Henry W.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Altadena Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **OCS - South** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Odyssey Charter** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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