# Balboa Gifted/High Ability Magnet Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271002833`
- **School name**: Balboa Gifted/High Ability Magnet Elementary
- **Location**: Northridge, CA 91325
- **Address**: 17020 Labrador St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 1–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.24833, -118.50295
- **Phone**: (818)349-4801
- **Website**: https://balboamagnet.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 650
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 31.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 78.0% proficient — 426 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.1% (35 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (5 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**: 27.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 2.2% — 15 students
- **English Learners**: 1.9% — 13 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,056
- **Federal share**: $2,172
- **State + local share**: $14,884
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 682
### 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**: $157,829
- **Poverty rate**: 8.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 56.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,114
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.6 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 86
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.22 miles (TUPPER ST COLUMBUS)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences** — 0.8 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 5.1%)
- **Northridge Academy High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.55% (this school: 5.1%)
- **James Monroe High** — 1.6 mi away, 1.44% (this school: 5.1%)
- **Jane Addams Continuation** — 2.0 mi away, 3.51% (this school: 5.1%)
- **Haskell Elem Sci Tech Engr Arts And Math (STEAM) Magnet** — 2.0 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 5.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Science Academy STEM Magnet** — 9.2 mi away, 83.05% (this school: 79%)
- **Wonderland Avenue Elementary** — 11.6 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 79%)
- **West Ranch High** — 12.0 mi away, 79.1% (this school: 79%)
- **Anderson W. Clark Magnet High** — 14.2 mi away, 79.4% (this school: 79%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-northridge/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/balboa-gifted-high-ability-magnet-elementary-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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