# Sussman (Edward A.) Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sussman-edward-a-middle-downey

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061146001275`
- **School name**: Sussman (Edward A.) Middle
- **Location**: Downey, CA 90242
- **Address**: 12500 Birchdale Ave.
- **District**: Downey Unified (LEAID `0611460`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.92050, -118.13900
- **Phone**: (562)904-3572

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,240
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 59
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.3% proficient — 1,147 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.6% (325 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.6% (82 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 89.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.5%
- **Asian**: 4.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 74.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 180 students
- **English Learners**: 14.0% — 170 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 104 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 35 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,654
- **Federal share**: $3,228
- **State + local share**: $15,426
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,218
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,219,487
- **Federal share**: 12.4%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 20.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,245,182

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,857
- **Poverty rate**: 13.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,056
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 200
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.07 miles (SOUTH GATE FORMER RANCHO MARKET SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DOWNEY - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-02-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 14.8% (this school: 25.6%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 19.9% (this school: 25.6%)
- **Warren (Earl) High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 25.6%)
- **Gauldin (A.L.) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 22.9% (this school: 25.6%)
- **Theodore Roosevelt** — 1.2 mi away, 25.5% (this school: 25.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Alameda Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 43.2% (this school: 41.15%)
- **Imperial Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 45.8% (this school: 41.15%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 41.8% (this school: 41.15%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 57.35% (this school: 41.15%)
- **Warren (Earl) High** — 1.1 mi away, 63.5% (this school: 41.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Warren (Earl) High** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Downey High** — 1.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Rio San Gabriel Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Will Rogers Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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