# Watts Learning Center Charter Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/watts-learning-center-charter-middle-los-angeles

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060169912491`
- **School name**: Watts Learning Center Charter Middle
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90003
- **Address**: 8800 South San Pedro St.
- **District**: Watts Learning Center Charter Middle District (LEAID `0601699`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 33.95710, -118.26905
- **Phone**: (323)565-4800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 400
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 100.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.8% proficient — 335 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.9% (90 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.9% (32 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: 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)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 85.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 13.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 99.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.8% — 29 students
- **English Learners**: 18.6% — 69 students

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,982,188
- **Federal share**: 16.3%
- **State share**: 56.8%
- **Local share**: 26.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,160,305

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $37,292
- **Poverty rate**: 34.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.0%
- **Unemployment**: 12.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,583
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 44.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (COOPER DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 249
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.68 miles (94TH AMP BROADWAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES-CITY, DEPT. OF WATER & POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Mervyn M. Dymally High** — 0.0 mi away, 1.81% (this school: 22.9%)
- **South Park Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 21% (this school: 22.9%)
- **Ninety-Third Street Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 20.4% (this school: 22.9%)
- **Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 4** — 0.7 mi away, 17.8% (this school: 22.9%)
- **John Hope Continuation** — 0.7 mi away, 3.7% (this school: 22.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 4** — 0.7 mi away, 33.1% (this school: 32.9%)
- **Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 41.75% (this school: 32.9%)
- **Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High** — 1.1 mi away, 41.15% (this school: 32.9%)
- **University Pathways Public Service Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 43.35% (this school: 32.9%)
- **Danny J. Bakewell Sr. Primary Center** — 1.2 mi away, 40.35% (this school: 32.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Watts Learning Center** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Charles W. Barrett Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Manchester Avenue Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Danny J. Bakewell Sr. Primary Center** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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