# The Leadership Academy

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/the-leadership-academy-lancaster/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/the-leadership-academy-lancaster

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062088014588`
- **School name**: The Leadership Academy
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93534
- **Address**: 44310 Hardwood Ave.
- **District**: Lancaster Elementary (LEAID `0620880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.68720, -118.14403
- **Phone**: (661)726-5454
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6508657 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 35
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 5
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.3%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 7.3% proficient — 22 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.5% (16 students) [source: ca_dashboard]

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.3%

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $41,064
- **Federal share**: $6,416
- **State + local share**: $34,648
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 39
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,511,305
- **Federal share**: 19.3%
- **State share**: 64.4%
- **Local share**: 16.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,846,020

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,238
- **Poverty rate**: 22.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.8%
- **Unemployment**: 9.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,401
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.3 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 32.09 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAND PROJECTS MUTUAL WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 108
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Empower Generations** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 23.5%)
- **Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies** — 0.7 mi away, 3.7% (this school: 23.5%)
- **Desert Sands Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 5.94% (this school: 23.5%)
- **Antelope Valley High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 23.5%)
- **Desert Winds Continuation High** — 1.5 mi away, 2.25% (this school: 23.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Empower Generations** — 0.1 mi away, 14.55% (this school: 7.3%)
- **Life Source International Charter** — 0.4 mi away, 28% (this school: 7.3%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 47.1% (this school: 7.3%)
- **Sunnydale Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 36.8% (this school: 7.3%)
- **Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies** — 0.7 mi away, 37.15% (this school: 7.3%)

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