# Whaley Middle

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060962001002`
- **School name**: Whaley Middle
- **Location**: Compton, CA 90221
- **Address**: 14401 South Gibson Ave.
- **District**: Compton Unified (LEAID `0609620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.90220, -118.19020
- **Phone**: (310)898-6070
- **Website**: https://www.compton.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 429
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.8% proficient — 438 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 6.1% (31 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.4% (67 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.9% (14 students) [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**: 89.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 10.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.2% — 73 students
- **English Learners**: 29.2% — 140 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 34 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,990
- **Federal share**: $4,259
- **State + local share**: $21,731
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 480
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,023,612
- **Federal share**: 13.8%
- **State share**: 70.8%
- **Local share**: 15.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,646,148

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,283
- **Poverty rate**: 11.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,716
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.1 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 230
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.27 miles (M STAR GAS STATION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: COMPTON-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Manuel Dominguez High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 6.1%)
- **Cesar Chavez Continuation High** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.1%)
- **Thurgood Marshall** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.1%)
- **Lynwood High** — 1.2 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 6.1%)
- **Marco Antonio Firebaugh High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 6.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Janie P. Abbott Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 30.3% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Clinton William Jefferson** — 0.6 mi away, 35.2% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Manuel Dominguez High** — 0.7 mi away, 36.8% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 40.6% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Foster Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 46.1% (this school: 28.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Mark Keppel** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Los Cerritos** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Howard Tanner** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mayo Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Vista High** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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