# Richard Henry Dana Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-henry-dana-middle-arcadia

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060297000227`
- **School name**: Richard Henry Dana Middle
- **Location**: Arcadia, CA 91006
- **Address**: 1401 South First Ave.
- **District**: Arcadia Unified (LEAID `0602970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.12401, -118.02944
- **Phone**: (626)821-8361

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 710
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 62.0% proficient — 645 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 7.5% (52 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.5% (10 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.2%
- **Black/African American**: 72.2%
- **Asian**: 1.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 32.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.9% — 53 students
- **English Learners**: 8.2% — 55 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,226
- **Federal share**: $1,863
- **State + local share**: $14,363
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 670
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,156,650
- **Federal share**: 9.1%
- **State share**: 36.2%
- **Local share**: 54.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,731,111

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $152,564
- **Poverty rate**: 6.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 69.2%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,032
- **Foreign-born residents**: 54.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.7 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 67
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.51 miles (KINNELOA AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ARCADIA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-02-11

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arcadia High** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 7.5%)
- **Camino Grove Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 3.6% (this school: 7.5%)
- **First Avenue Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 5.3% (this school: 7.5%)
- **Rancho Learning Center (Alternative)** — 1.1 mi away, 5.9% (this school: 7.5%)
- **Longley Way Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 5.9% (this school: 7.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Arcadia High** — 0.7 mi away, 64.3% (this school: 64%)
- **Camino Grove Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 67% (this school: 64%)
- **First Avenue Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 65.05% (this school: 64%)
- **Holly Avenue Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 64.2% (this school: 64%)
- **Baldwin Stocker Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 72.1% (this school: 64%)

### math proficiency
- **Arcadia High** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Holly Avenue Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Baldwin Stocker Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Plymouth Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Santa Fe Computer Science Magnet** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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