# Walter F. Dexter Middle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064245006936`
- **School name**: Walter F. Dexter Middle
- **Location**: Whittier, CA 90601
- **Address**: 11532 East Floral Dr.
- **District**: Whittier City Elementary (LEAID `0642450`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.99084, -118.05339
- **Phone**: (562)789-3090
- **Website**: http://dexter.whittiercity.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 610
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.3% proficient — 570 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 27.9% (187 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (5 students) [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**: 86.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.1% — 126 students
- **English Learners**: 15.0% — 94 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 87 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,357
- **Federal share**: $2,063
- **State + local share**: $19,294
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 627
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,487,691
- **Federal share**: 11.3%
- **State share**: 65.2%
- **Local share**: 23.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,957,053

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,000
- **Poverty rate**: 7.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.8%
- **Unemployment**: 11.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,865
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (OMEGA CHEMICAL CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 160
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.44 miles (LOS ANGELES CADA CENTERS FOR ALCOHOL DRUG ABU)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHITTIER-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Longfellow Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 1.42% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Orange Grove Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 27.9%)
- **West Whittier Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 23.9% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Whittier High** — 0.9 mi away, 0.82% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Katherine Edwards Mid Sch STEAM & Dual Immersion Acad** — 1.0 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 27.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Whittier High** — 0.9 mi away, 54.55% (this school: 37.65%)
- **Daniel Phelan Language Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 47% (this school: 37.65%)
- **Lou Henry Hoover School of Fine Arts** — 1.4 mi away, 45.3% (this school: 37.65%)
- **Mill School and Technology Academy** — 1.8 mi away, 48.45% (this school: 37.65%)
- **Durfee Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 40.9% (this school: 37.65%)

### math proficiency
- **Whittier High** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **East Whittier Middle** — 3.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Unsworth (Edith) Elementary** — 3.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Lake Center Middle** — 4.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **La Serna High** — 4.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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

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