# Topeka Charter School For Advanced Studies

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/topeka-charter-school-for-advanced-studies-northridge

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003402`
- **School name**: Topeka Charter School For Advanced Studies
- **Location**: Northridge, CA 91324
- **Address**: 9815 Topeka Dr.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.24820, -118.54663
- **Phone**: (818)886-2266
- **Website**: http://topekacharter.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 610
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.8% proficient — 277 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.9% (92 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.3% (18 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.9% — 84 students
- **English Learners**: 5.0% — 30 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,309
- **Federal share**: $2,982
- **State + local share**: $17,327
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 604
### 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**: $95,152
- **Poverty rate**: 8.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.8%
- **Unemployment**: 1.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,266
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.9 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 77
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.03 miles (LOS ANGELES RIVER YOLANDA AVENUE TO AMIGO AVENUE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Alfred B. Nobel Charter Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 9.1% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Our Community Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 14.9%)
- **CDS Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Northridge Academy High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.55% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Beckford Charter for Enriched Studies** — 1.4 mi away, 6.3% (this school: 14.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Alfred B. Nobel Charter Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 72.9% (this school: 63.4%)
- **Our Community Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 67.9% (this school: 63.4%)
- **Beckford Charter for Enriched Studies** — 1.4 mi away, 74.55% (this school: 63.4%)
- **Granada Hills Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 73.15% (this school: 63.4%)
- **Valley International Preparatory High** — 1.9 mi away, 73.9% (this school: 63.4%)

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