# Frank J. Zamboni

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062985007134`
- **School name**: Frank J. Zamboni
- **Location**: Paramount, CA 90723
- **Address**: 15733 South Orange Ave.
- **District**: Paramount Unified (LEAID `0629850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.89070, -118.17840
- **Phone**: (562)602-8048

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 650
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.0%

## 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)**: 42.9% proficient — 672 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.3% (164 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.5% (44 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (4 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**: 96.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 106 students
- **English Learners**: 38.6% — 277 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 68 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,246
- **Federal share**: $2,227
- **State + local share**: $20,019
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 717
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,464,286
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 67.2%
- **Local share**: 17.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,102,128

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $66,395
- **Poverty rate**: 13.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,672
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 15
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 209
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.65 miles (1117 SOUTH LONG BEACH BOULEVARD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PARAMOUNT - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Mark Keppel** — 0.3 mi away, 21.4% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Manuel Dominguez High** — 0.3 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Cesar Chavez Continuation High** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Thurgood Marshall** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Wesley Gaines** — 0.6 mi away, 22% (this school: 22.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Mark Keppel** — 0.3 mi away, 40% (this school: 31.45%)
- **Manuel Dominguez High** — 0.3 mi away, 36.8% (this school: 31.45%)
- **Clinton William Jefferson** — 0.4 mi away, 35.2% (this school: 31.45%)
- **Wesley Gaines** — 0.6 mi away, 32.5% (this school: 31.45%)
- **Hamilton Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 39.45% (this school: 31.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Mark Keppel** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Los Cerritos** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Howard Tanner** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Abraham Lincoln** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Paramount Virtual Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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