# Kempton Street Literacy Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/kempton-street-literacy-academy-spring-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062025002430`
- **School name**: Kempton Street Literacy Academy
- **Location**: Spring Valley, CA 91977
- **Address**: 740 Kempton St.
- **District**: La Mesa-Spring Valley (LEAID `0620250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.71080, -117.00260
- **Phone**: (619)668-5870
- **Website**: https://www.lmsvschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 480
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.0%

## 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)**: 30.7% proficient — 277 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.8% (138 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 39.5% (224 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.6% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (15 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**: 84.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.7% — 82 students
- **English Learners**: 52.1% — 290 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,135
- **Federal share**: $1,665
- **State + local share**: $16,470
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 557
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,892,570
- **Federal share**: 18.5%
- **State share**: 50.7%
- **Local share**: 30.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,985,325

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $87,188
- **Poverty rate**: 9.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.6%
- **Unemployment**: 12.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,711
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 45.6 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.67 miles (SECOND CHANCE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OTAY WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.9444 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa** — 0.1 mi away, 5.04% (this school: 23.8%)
- **Mount Miguel High** — 1.2 mi away, 4.18% (this school: 23.8%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 19.1% (this school: 23.8%)
- **Sweetwater Springs Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 18.6% (this school: 23.8%)
- **Monte Vista High** — 2.5 mi away, 4.16% (this school: 23.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **La Presa Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 40.1% (this school: 25.35%)
- **Rancho Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 31.9% (this school: 25.35%)
- **Avondale Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 30.35% (this school: 25.35%)
- **Mount Miguel High** — 1.2 mi away, 37.9% (this school: 25.35%)
- **Freese Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 41.5% (this school: 25.35%)

### math proficiency
- **La Presa Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mount Miguel High** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Freese Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Audubon K-8** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Monterey Heights Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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