# Gaspar De Portola Charter Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/gaspar-de-portola-charter-middle-tarzana

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003289`
- **School name**: Gaspar De Portola Charter Middle
- **Location**: Tarzana, CA 91356
- **Address**: 18720 Linnet St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.16742, -118.54251
- **Phone**: (818)654-3300
- **Website**: https://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/portola_ms

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,461
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 60
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 49.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.2% proficient — 1,304 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.2% (277 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.4% (124 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.1% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 237 students
- **English Learners**: 7.5% — 105 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 81 students
- **Autism**: 45 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 44 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,808
- **Federal share**: $2,879
- **State + local share**: $15,929
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,403
### 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**: $159,926
- **Poverty rate**: 11.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 62.6%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.0 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 39
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.43 miles (RESEDA PARK RESEDA PARK MAINTENANCE YARD OSEC)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wilbur Charter For Enriched Academics** — 0.2 mi away, 18.4% (this school: 19.2%)
- **CHIME Institute's Schwarzenegger Community** — 1.2 mi away, 17.2% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies** — 1.2 mi away, 7.3% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Henry David Thoreau Continuation** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Academy for Enriched Sciences** — 1.6 mi away, 7.1% (this school: 19.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **High Tech LA** — 2.5 mi away, 73.15% (this school: 70.1%)
- **Birmingham Community Charter High** — 2.6 mi away, 70.7% (this school: 70.1%)
- **Lanai Road Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 73.7% (this school: 70.1%)
- **Grover Cleveland Charter High** — 3.6 mi away, 70.75% (this school: 70.1%)
- **Valley International Preparatory High** — 3.7 mi away, 73.9% (this school: 70.1%)

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