# Balboa Middle

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064098006746`
- **School name**: Balboa Middle
- **Location**: Ventura, CA 93003
- **Address**: 247 Hill Rd.
- **District**: Ventura Unified (LEAID `0640980`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.27544, -119.20999
- **Phone**: (805)289-1800
- **Website**: https://www.venturausd.org/balboa.htm

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 845
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 46.0% proficient — 859 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.8% (132 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.6% (143 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [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**: 54.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.3% — 153 students
- **English Learners**: 21.3% — 200 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 68 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,294
- **Federal share**: $2,335
- **State + local share**: $14,959
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 941
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,339,345
- **Federal share**: 10.4%
- **State share**: 48.9%
- **Local share**: 40.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,227,945

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,610
- **Poverty rate**: 3.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.1%
- **Unemployment**: 10.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,125
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.6 miles (HALACO ENGINEERING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.67 miles (WESTPARK SHERIDAN WAY SCHOOL JOINT YOUTH FACILITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.15532 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Mound Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 7.3% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Buena High** — 0.4 mi away, 1.13% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Poinsettia Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 9.1% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Foothill Technology High** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.8%)
- **El Camino High** — 1.0 mi away, 1.38% (this school: 13.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Mound Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 62.85% (this school: 56%)
- **Foothill Technology High** — 0.9 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 56%)
- **El Camino High** — 1.0 mi away, 65.3% (this school: 56%)
- **Golden Valley Charter** — 2.1 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 56%)
- **Academy of Technology & Leadership at Saticoy** — 3.0 mi away, 64.8% (this school: 56%)

### math proficiency
- **Mound Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Juanamaria Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Montalvo Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Citrus Glen Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Rio del Sol** — 2.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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