# Placerita Junior High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/placerita-junior-high-newhall

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064251006960`
- **School name**: Placerita Junior High
- **Location**: Newhall, CA 91321
- **Address**: 25015 North Newhall Ave.
- **District**: William S. Hart Union High (LEAID `0642510`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.38772, -118.54120
- **Phone**: (661)259-1551
- **Website**: https://www.placeritajuniorhigh.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 940
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.6% proficient — 879 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.2% (125 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (30 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (12 students) [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**: 41.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.5% — 161 students
- **English Learners**: 21.5% — 198 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 92 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,872
- **Federal share**: $958
- **State + local share**: $16,914
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 920
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,539,260
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 59.6%
- **Local share**: 28.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,851,245

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,750
- **Poverty rate**: 16.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.8%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,077
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.4 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.95 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA CLARITA VALLEY WATER AGENCY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.35987 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **William S. Hart High** — 0.3 mi away, 1.76% (this school: 13.2%)
- **Old Orchard Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 8.8% (this school: 13.2%)
- **Meadows Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 9.6% (this school: 13.2%)
- **Valencia Valley Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 13.2%)
- **Academy of the Canyons** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **William S. Hart High** — 0.3 mi away, 71% (this school: 67.3%)
- **Old Orchard Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 68.2% (this school: 67.3%)
- **Valencia Valley Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 71.05% (this school: 67.3%)
- **Academy of the Canyons** — 1.9 mi away, 76.15% (this school: 67.3%)
- **Pico Canyon Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 73.45% (this school: 67.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Old Orchard Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Peachland Avenue Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Valencia Valley Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Academy of the Canyons** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Pico Canyon Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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