# Vena Avenue Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/vena-avenue-elementary-arleta/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/vena-avenue-elementary-arleta

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003427`
- **School name**: Vena Avenue Elementary
- **Location**: Arleta, CA 91331
- **Address**: 9377 Vena Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.24023, -118.42003
- **Phone**: (818)896-9551
- **Website**: https://venaavees.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 464
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 57.9% proficient — 216 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.9% (70 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.4% (40 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.1% — 54 students
- **English Learners**: 16.1% — 78 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,591
- **Federal share**: $4,185
- **State + local share**: $18,406
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 486
### 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**: $90,417
- **Poverty rate**: 9.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.0%
- **Unemployment**: 12.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,944
- **Foreign-born residents**: 42.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 128
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.07 miles (PACOIMA)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Robert H. Lewis Continuation** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.9%)
- **North Valley Military Institute College Preparatory Academy** — 1.4 mi away, 10.11% (this school: 13.9%)
- **John H. Francis Polytechnic** — 1.4 mi away, 1.22% (this school: 13.9%)
- **Arleta High** — 1.5 mi away, 0.18% (this school: 13.9%)
- **Valor Academy High** — 2.2 mi away, 0.81% (this school: 13.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Pacoima Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 39.2% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Richard E. Byrd Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 39.05% (this school: 38.95%)
- **John H. Francis Polytechnic** — 1.4 mi away, 47.55% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Alliance Marine - Innovation and Technology 6-12 Complex** — 1.5 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 38.95%)
- **Primary Academy for Success** — 2.1 mi away, 41.15% (this school: 38.95%)

### math proficiency
- **John H. Francis Polytechnic** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Alliance Marine - Innovation and Technology 6-12 Complex** — 1.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Primary Academy for Success** — 2.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **San Jose Street Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Fenton Primary Center** — 2.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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