# Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271012946`
- **School name**: Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences
- **Location**: Granada Hills, CA 91344
- **Address**: 10445 Balboa Blvd.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.25988, -118.50278
- **Phone**: (818)832-7750
- **Website**: https://www.thevalleyacademy.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 757
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.8% proficient — 195 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.0% (cohort of 200)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 238)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.6% (56 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 27.3% — 217 students
- **English Learners**: 4.0% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 110 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 45 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 14 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,515
- **Federal share**: $4,291
- **State + local share**: $20,224
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 794
### 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**: $110,469
- **Poverty rate**: 5.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.6%
- **Unemployment**: 11.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,525
- **Foreign-born residents**: 40.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.9 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 85
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.55 miles (TUPPER ST COLUMBUS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TN TRUSS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 9
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **John F. Kennedy High** — 1.4 mi away, 0.45% (this school: 0.5%)
- **Arleta High** — 3.5 mi away, 0.18% (this school: 0.5%)
- **CDS Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.5%)
- **Valley International Preparatory High** — 3.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.5%)
- **Joaquin Miller Career and Transition Center** — 3.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Mayall Street Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 71.3% (this school: 60.4%)
- **Balboa Gifted/High Ability Magnet Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 79% (this school: 60.4%)
- **Granada Hills Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 73.15% (this school: 60.4%)
- **Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle** — 1.4 mi away, 67.35% (this school: 60.4%)
- **Vintage Math/Science/Technology Magnet** — 1.5 mi away, 61.5% (this school: 60.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Northridge Academy High** — 1.6 mi away, 98.2% (this school: 97%)
- **Magnolia Science Academy** — 4.4 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 97%)
- **PUC Triumph Charter Academy and PUC Triumph Charter High** — 4.5 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)
- **PUC Lakeview Charter High** — 4.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 97%)
- **Lake Balboa College Preparatory Magnet K-12** — 4.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 97%)

### math proficiency
- **Mayall Street Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Andasol Avenue Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Balboa Gifted/High Ability Magnet Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Granada Hills Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **George K. Porter Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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