# Mervyn M. Dymally High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mervyn-m-dymally-high-los-angeles

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271013079`
- **School name**: Mervyn M. Dymally High
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90003
- **Address**: 8800 South San Pedro St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.95710, -118.26905
- **Phone**: (323)565-4600
- **Website**: http://dymallyhs.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 654
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 98.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.0% proficient — 172 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 83.5% (cohort of 158)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 156)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 40.2% (270 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (20 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 98.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.0% — 144 students
- **English Learners**: 21.8% — 157 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 55 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,158
- **Federal share**: $5,444
- **State + local share**: $22,714
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 720
### 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**: $37,292
- **Poverty rate**: 34.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.0%
- **Unemployment**: 12.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,583
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 44.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (COOPER DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 249
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.68 miles (94TH AMP BROADWAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES-CITY, DEPT. OF WATER & POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **John C. Fremont Senior High** — 0.9 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 1.81%)
- **Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.81%)
- **University Pathways Public Service Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.81%)
- **Animo Pat Brown** — 1.6 mi away, 0.83% (this school: 1.81%)
- **Thomas Riley High** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.81%)

### ela proficiency
- **Watts Learning Center Charter Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 32.9% (this school: 27%)
- **Dr. Owen Lloyd Knox Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 29.3% (this school: 27%)
- **Alliance College-Ready Middle Academy 4** — 0.7 mi away, 33.1% (this school: 27%)
- **Watts Learning Center** — 0.7 mi away, 28.5% (this school: 27%)
- **KIPP Academy of Opportunity** — 0.8 mi away, 29% (this school: 27%)

### graduation rate
- **John C. Fremont Senior High** — 0.9 mi away, 88.6% (this school: 83.5%)
- **Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High** — 1.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 83.5%)
- **University Pathways Public Service Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 97.1% (this school: 83.5%)
- **Alliance Piera Barbaglia Shaheen Health Services Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 90.8% (this school: 83.5%)
- **Animo Pat Brown** — 1.6 mi away, 97.9% (this school: 83.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Watts Learning Center** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Charles W. Barrett Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Manchester Avenue Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ninety-Ninth Street Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Danny J. Bakewell Sr. Primary Center** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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