# La Mesa Arts Academy

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062025002432`
- **School name**: La Mesa Arts Academy
- **Location**: La Mesa, CA 91942
- **Address**: 4200 Parks Ave.
- **District**: La Mesa-Spring Valley (LEAID `0620250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 4–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.75490, -117.03020
- **Phone**: (619)668-5730
- **Website**: https://www.lmsvschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,059
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 51
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 59.1% proficient — 976 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.3% (132 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.3% (58 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 37.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.4% — 121 students
- **English Learners**: 4.9% — 52 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,556
- **Federal share**: $1,513
- **State + local share**: $17,043
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,057
### 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**: $126,628
- **Poverty rate**: 2.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,384
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 42.2 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.77 miles (SECOND CHANCE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.25112 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Helix High** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.3%)
- **The Learning Choice Academy - East County** — 1.0 mi away, 1% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Mount Miguel High** — 2.4 mi away, 4.18% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Crawford High** — 2.7 mi away, 3.45% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Benchley/Weinberger Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 10.3% (this school: 12.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Helix High** — 0.4 mi away, 75.8% (this school: 69.55%)
- **Murdock Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 69.65% (this school: 69.55%)
- **Benchley/Weinberger Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 70.6% (this school: 69.55%)
- **Hearst Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 71.85% (this school: 69.55%)
- **Green Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 73.2% (this school: 69.55%)

### math proficiency
- **Helix High** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Language Academy** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Benchley/Weinberger Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Hearst Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Green Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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