# South Gate Middle

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/south-gate-middle-south-gate

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003363`
- **School name**: South Gate Middle
- **Location**: South Gate, CA 90280
- **Address**: 4100 Firestone Blvd.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.95250, -118.19769
- **Phone**: (323)568-4000
- **Website**: http://southgatems.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,192
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 60
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 40.8% proficient — 1,201 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.5% (254 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.8% (278 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.3% — 219 students
- **English Learners**: 15.3% — 194 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 146 students
- **Autism**: 42 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,792
- **Federal share**: $4,140
- **State + local share**: $17,652
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,264
### 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**: $47,115
- **Poverty rate**: 23.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,393
- **Foreign-born residents**: 48.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.1 miles (COOPER DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 13
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 351
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.41 miles (CASA GRANDE DEVELOPMENT 1 2)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH GATE-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **South Gate Senior High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 19.5%)
- **Odyssey Continuation** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.5%)
- **Jaime Escalante Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 15.4% (this school: 19.5%)
- **International Studies Lrng Center at Legacy High Sch Complex** — 1.3 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 19.5%)
- **Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex** — 1.3 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 19.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Aspire Firestone Academy Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 41.45% (this school: 39.4%)
- **San Miguel Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 41.5% (this school: 39.4%)
- **Bryson Avenue Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 44.25% (this school: 39.4%)
- **Independence Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 42.8% (this school: 39.4%)
- **Victoria Avenue Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 42.3% (this school: 39.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Aspire Firestone Academy Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Stanford Primary Center** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Bell Senior High** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Martha Escutia Primary Center** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Will Rogers Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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