# Santa Monica Alternative (K-8)

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063570007360`
- **School name**: Santa Monica Alternative (K-8)
- **Location**: Santa Monica, CA 90405
- **Address**: 2525 Fifth St.
- **District**: Santa Monica-Malibu Unified (LEAID `0635700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.00530, -118.48110
- **Phone**: (310)396-2640
- **Website**: https://www.smmusd.org/smash

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 216
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 14.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Yellow
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Yellow
  - chronic_absent: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.3% proficient — 140 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 9.0% (20 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (2 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: 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**: 12.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.9% — 59 students
- **English Learners**: 2.7% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 219
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $33,858,144
- **Federal share**: 5.9%
- **State share**: 8.6%
- **Local share**: 85.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,275,496

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,648
- **Poverty rate**: 10.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 71.8%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,477
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.8 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.02 miles (ADELANTE EASTSIDE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA MONICA-CITY, WATER DIVISION
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Olympic High (Continuation)** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 9%)
- **Santa Monica High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 9%)
- **Animo Venice Charter High** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 9%)
- **Venice Senior High** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 9%)
- **Mar Vista Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 7.5% (this school: 9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Santa Monica High** — 0.5 mi away, 77.1% (this school: 48.65%)
- **Will Rogers Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 52.5% (this school: 48.65%)
- **John Adams Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 55.8% (this school: 48.65%)
- **Westminster Avenue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 65.25% (this school: 48.65%)
- **Broadway Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 75.75% (this school: 48.65%)

### math proficiency
- **Santa Monica High** — 0.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Westminster Avenue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Broadway Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Walgrove Avenue Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Coeur D'Alene Avenue Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-monica-alternative-k-8-santa-monica/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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