# Desert Willow Fine Arts Sci and Tech Magnet Acad

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958010905`
- **School name**: Desert Willow Fine Arts Sci and Tech Magnet Acad
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93550
- **Address**: 36555 Sunny Ln.
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.54570, -118.08190
- **Phone**: (661)285-5866
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/dw

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 948
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.7%

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.2% (118 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (12 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.4% — 228 students
- **English Learners**: 16.6% — 169 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 87 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 29 students
- **Autism**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,897
- **Federal share**: $2,699
- **State + local share**: $16,198
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,020
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,574,168
- **Federal share**: 18.4%
- **State share**: 70.2%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,260,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $92,587
- **Poverty rate**: 13.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,132
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 24.3 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 25.64 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.6 miles

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-willow-fine-arts-sci-and-tech-magnet-acad-palmdale/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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