# Making Waves Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/making-waves-academy-richmond

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060150212043`
- **School name**: Making Waves Academy
- **Location**: Richmond, CA 94806
- **Address**: 4123 Lakeside Dr.
- **District**: Making Waves Academy District (LEAID `0601502`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 5–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 37.98853, -122.33259
- **Phone**: (510)262-1511

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,078
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.4% proficient — 710 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 86.2% (cohort of 94)
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 104)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.5% (108 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.9% (259 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 85.7%
- **Black/African American**: 2.4%
- **Asian**: 8.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.2% — 79 students
- **English Learners**: 26.6% — 293 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,067,616
- **Federal share**: 10.6%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 48.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,346,085

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,411
- **Poverty rate**: 13.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.7%
- **Unemployment**: 12.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,268
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 35
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.43 miles (2545 DUKE AVENUE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.80968 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 18.5%)
- **Middle College High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.5%)
- **Vista Independent Study / Virtual Academy** — 1.4 mi away, 16.3% (this school: 18.5%)
- **West County Mandarin** — 1.7 mi away, 8.9% (this school: 18.5%)
- **Pinole Valley High** — 2.5 mi away, 1.39% (this school: 18.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Middle College High** — 1.3 mi away, 76.7% (this school: 34.7%)
- **Pinole Middle** — 1.7 mi away, 35.25% (this school: 34.7%)
- **West County Mandarin** — 1.7 mi away, 61.05% (this school: 34.7%)
- **Stewart Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 43.25% (this school: 34.7%)
- **Collins Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 39.65% (this school: 34.7%)

### graduation rate
- **Summit Public School: Tamalpais** — 0.8 mi away, 94.3% (this school: 86.2%)
- **Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 96.2% (this school: 86.2%)
- **Middle College High** — 1.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 86.2%)
- **Pinole Valley High** — 2.5 mi away, 90.2% (this school: 86.2%)
- **Leadership Public Schools: Richmond** — 4.1 mi away, 96.8% (this school: 86.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Montalvin Manor Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Betty Reid Soskin Middle** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Shannon Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Pinole Middle** — 1.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **West County Mandarin** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

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