# Ararat Charter

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060174212437`
- **School name**: Ararat Charter
- **Location**: Van Nuys, CA 91401
- **Address**: 6555 Sylmar Ave.
- **District**: Ararat Charter District (LEAID `0601742`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.19000, -118.44683
- **Phone**: (818)994-2904

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 333
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 83.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 40.7% proficient — 152 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.2% (63 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.2% (38 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 84.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.9% — 30 students
- **English Learners**: 46.5% — 157 students

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,830,769
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 58.3%
- **Local share**: 27.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,526,154

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,558
- **Poverty rate**: 14.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.7%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,584
- **Foreign-born residents**: 50.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.5 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 86
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.18 miles (ROSCOE SITE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Van Nuys Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 13.6% (this school: 18.2%)
- **CHAMPS - Charter HS of Arts-Multimedia & Performing** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Van Nuys Senior High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Will Rogers Continuation** — 0.4 mi away, 3.82% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Columbus Avenue Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 15.8% (this school: 18.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **CHAMPS - Charter HS of Arts-Multimedia & Performing** — 0.4 mi away, 51.3% (this school: 39.35%)
- **Van Nuys Senior High** — 0.4 mi away, 66.25% (this school: 39.35%)
- **Valley Charter Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 41.7% (this school: 39.35%)
- **Lashon Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 60.15% (this school: 39.35%)
- **Erwin Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 40.55% (this school: 39.35%)

### math proficiency
- **Van Nuys Senior High** — 0.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Valley Charter Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Lashon Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Erwin Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Kester Avenue Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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