# Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271012439`
- **School name**: Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90012
- **Address**: 450 North Grand Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.05983, -118.24424
- **Phone**: (213)217-8600
- **Website**: https://www.cortinesgrandarts.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7289813 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_C._Cortines_School_of_Visual_and_Performing_Arts
- **Founded**: 2009

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,102
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 63
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 57.7% proficient — 261 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.6% (cohort of 286)
- **2021**: 95.0% (cohort of 257)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.3% (141 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (18 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.4% — 141 students
- **English Learners**: 5.1% — 58 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 70 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,624
- **Federal share**: $3,716
- **State + local share**: $18,908
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,139
### 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**: $71,776
- **Poverty rate**: 26.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,196
- **Foreign-born residents**: 61.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.7 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 4)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 185
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.35 miles (EL PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES)

### 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**: 12.1636 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Downtown Business High** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **Ednovate - Brio College Prep** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **School of Business and Tourism at Contreras Learning Complex** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **Contreras Lrng Center-Los Angeles Sch of Global Studies** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **Alliance Ted K. Tajima High** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)

### ela proficiency
- **Downtown Business High** — 0.6 mi away, 76.05% (this school: 68.85%)
- **Clifford Street Elementary Math & Technology Magnet** — 2.2 mi away, 70.15% (this school: 68.85%)
- **Micheltorena Street Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 68.9% (this school: 68.85%)
- **Renaissance Arts Academy** — 3.3 mi away, 72.9% (this school: 68.85%)
- **Mt. Washington Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 71.1% (this school: 68.85%)

### graduation rate
- **Downtown Business High** — 0.6 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 91.6%)
- **Edward R. Roybal Learning Center** — 0.6 mi away, 95.1% (this school: 91.6%)
- **Ednovate - Brio College Prep** — 0.8 mi away, 95.7% (this school: 91.6%)
- **Alliance Ted K. Tajima High** — 1.0 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 91.6%)
- **Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise** — 1.1 mi away, 96.4% (this school: 91.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Downtown Business High** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **PUC Milagro Charter** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Citizens of the World Charter School Silver Lake** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Elysian Heights ES Arts Magnet** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Equitas Academy 6** — 2.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-los-angeles/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ramon-c-cortines-school-of-visual-and-performing-arts-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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