# Palmdale Learning Plaza

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/palmdale-learning-plaza-palmdale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958002169`
- **School name**: Palmdale Learning Plaza
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93551
- **Address**: 38043 Division St.
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.57350, -118.13060
- **Phone**: (661)538-9034
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/plp

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 800
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 46.8% proficient — 520 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.2% (172 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.8% (113 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 79.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.7% — 126 students
- **English Learners**: 18.3% — 147 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,910
- **Federal share**: $2,600
- **State + local share**: $16,310
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 803
### 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**: $48,000
- **Poverty rate**: 31.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,461
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 40.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.8 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 26.04 miles (ONATE SITE)

### 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**: 10.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **R. Rex Parris High** — 1.2 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 1.9 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Palmdale High** — 2.4 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Highland High** — 2.9 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 17.9% (this school: 21.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 6.4 mi away, 71.25% (this school: 56.4%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 6.8 mi away, 57.55% (this school: 56.4%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 6.9 mi away, 57.4% (this school: 56.4%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 7.0 mi away, 61.4% (this school: 56.4%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 8.0 mi away, 75.65% (this school: 56.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 4.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Quail Valley Elementary** — 6.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 6.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 6.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 6.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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