# Louis Armstrong Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/louis-armstrong-middle-sherman-oaks

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003187`
- **School name**: Louis Armstrong Middle
- **Location**: Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
- **Address**: 5041 Sunnyslope Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.16277, -118.42776
- **Phone**: (818)528-1600
- **Website**: http://louisarmstrongms.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,174
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 54
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.0% proficient — 1,127 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.7% (245 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.2% (118 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 54.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 171 students
- **English Learners**: 9.1% — 110 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 78 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 25 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,850
- **Federal share**: $2,711
- **State + local share**: $15,139
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,212
### 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**: $100,257
- **Poverty rate**: 3.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 49.6%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,454
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.8 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 63
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.23 miles (ROSCOE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: Curtis Flats
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2021-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Chandler Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Riverside Drive Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 18.9% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Dixie Canyon Community Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 15.9% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Jack London Continuation** — 1.2 mi away, 2.78% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Ulysses S. Grant Senior High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.28% (this school: 19.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Chandler Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 68.3% (this school: 60%)
- **Riverside Drive Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 60.2% (this school: 60%)
- **Dixie Canyon Community Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 62.95% (this school: 60%)
- **Ulysses S. Grant Senior High** — 1.3 mi away, 60.6% (this school: 60%)
- **Kester Avenue Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 74.15% (this school: 60%)

### math proficiency
- **Chandler Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Riverside Drive Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Dixie Canyon Community Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **John B. Monlux Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Kester Avenue Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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