# Rio Norte Junior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064251011320`
- **School name**: Rio Norte Junior High
- **Location**: Santa Clarita, CA 91354
- **Address**: 28771 Rio Norte Dr.
- **District**: William S. Hart Union High (LEAID `0642510`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.45972, -118.55923
- **Phone**: (661)295-3700
- **Website**: https://www.rionortejuniorhigh.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,138
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 17.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 65.0% proficient — 1,086 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 7.3% (82 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (20 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 13.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.2% — 202 students
- **English Learners**: 3.2% — 36 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 66 students
- **Autism**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,742
- **Federal share**: $1,862
- **State + local share**: $14,880
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,110
### 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**: $161,364
- **Poverty rate**: 3.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 63.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,263
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.0 miles (PACIFIC COAST PIPELINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 28
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.52 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY FOUNDA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.35987 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **West Creek Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 7.3%)
- **Tesoro del Valle Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 5.8% (this school: 7.3%)
- **North Park Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 5.4% (this school: 7.3%)
- **Valencia High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 7.3%)
- **Charles Helmers Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 3.8% (this school: 7.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **West Creek Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 74.85% (this school: 72.5%)
- **Valencia High** — 1.3 mi away, 74.8% (this school: 72.5%)
- **Charles Helmers Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 73.85% (this school: 72.5%)
- **Saugus High** — 2.6 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 72.5%)
- **Academy of the Canyons** — 4.2 mi away, 76.15% (this school: 72.5%)

### math proficiency
- **West Creek Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Tesoro del Valle Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Charles Helmers Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Valencia Valley Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Academy of the Canyons** — 4.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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