# Dana

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dana-san-diego/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dana-san-diego

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063432007683`
- **School name**: Dana
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92106
- **Address**: 1775 Chatsworth Blvd.
- **District**: San Diego Unified (LEAID `0634320`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.73324, -117.23380
- **Phone**: (619)225-3897
- **Website**: https://www.dana.sandiegounified.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5214792 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Middle_School_(San_Diego)
- **Founded**: 1941

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 646
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 38.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 62.4% proficient — 612 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.5% (116 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.3% (36 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 37.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 81 students
- **English Learners**: 8.0% — 52 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 47 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,200
- **Federal share**: $2,735
- **State + local share**: $16,465
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 648
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,705,281
- **Federal share**: 14.4%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 60.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,484,916

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $179,239
- **Poverty rate**: 5.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 65.5%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 40.1 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.64 miles (BRIDGE HOUSING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.71203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Silver Gate Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 15.1% (this school: 17.5%)
- **Point Loma High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.65% (this school: 17.5%)
- **High Tech High Media Arts** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.5%)
- **High Tech High International** — 0.8 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 17.5%)
- **Loma Portal Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 16.2% (this school: 17.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Silver Gate Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 72.25% (this school: 71.2%)
- **High Tech High** — 0.9 mi away, 71.45% (this school: 71.2%)
- **Ocean Beach Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 73% (this school: 71.2%)
- **Sunset View Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 72.4% (this school: 71.2%)
- **Coronado Village Elementary** — 4.1 mi away, 71.6% (this school: 71.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Silver Gate Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Loma Portal Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **High Tech High** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Ocean Beach Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Sunset View Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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