# Northridge Middle

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/northridge-middle-northridge/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003231`
- **School name**: Northridge Middle
- **Location**: Northridge, CA 91325
- **Address**: 17960 Chase St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.22421, -118.52431
- **Phone**: (818)678-5100
- **Website**: http://northridgems.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 670
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 31.9% proficient — 668 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 27.0% (212 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.1% (108 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (10 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.9% — 166 students
- **English Learners**: 23.1% — 167 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 119 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 28 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,157
- **Federal share**: $5,690
- **State + local share**: $20,467
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 724
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $62,271
- **Poverty rate**: 16.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,938
- **Foreign-born residents**: 43.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.2 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 90
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.46 miles (LOS ANGELES RIVER AMIGO AVENUE TO RESEDA BLVD)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Cantara Street Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 22% (this school: 27%)
- **Magnolia Science Academy 7** — 0.6 mi away, 16.9% (this school: 27%)
- **Lorne Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 22% (this school: 27%)
- **James Jordan Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 6.8% (this school: 27%)
- **Valley International Preparatory High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 27%)

### ela proficiency
- **Cantara Street Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 38.45% (this school: 34.95%)
- **Magnolia Science Academy 7** — 0.6 mi away, 55.35% (this school: 34.95%)
- **Lorne Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 61.85% (this school: 34.95%)
- **James Jordan Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 44.85% (this school: 34.95%)
- **Valley International Preparatory High** — 1.1 mi away, 73.9% (this school: 34.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Magnolia Science Academy 7** — 0.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Lorne Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Valley International Preparatory High** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Stagg Street Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Calahan Street Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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