# Ball Junior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060263000170`
- **School name**: Ball Junior High
- **Location**: Anaheim, CA 92802
- **Address**: 1500 West Ball Rd.
- **District**: Anaheim Union High (LEAID `0602630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.81750, -117.93350
- **Phone**: (714)999-3663
- **Website**: http://ball.auhsd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 737
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 27.6% proficient — 774 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 31.1% (275 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.7% (112 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.7% (31 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 83.0%
- **Black/African American**: 9.2%
- **Asian**: 0.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.9% — 151 students
- **English Learners**: 36.3% — 306 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 67 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,774
- **Federal share**: $1,669
- **State + local share**: $18,105
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 844
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,099,282
- **Federal share**: 12.8%
- **State share**: 57.5%
- **Local share**: 29.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,722,328

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $102,292
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,302
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.6 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 177
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.72 miles (ROSS PARK EXPANSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ANAHEIM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ross (Betsy) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 26.2% (this school: 31.1%)
- **Loara High** — 0.7 mi away, 2.11% (this school: 31.1%)
- **Polaris High** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 31.1%)
- **Gilbert High (Continuation)** — 0.8 mi away, 13.35% (this school: 31.1%)
- **Loara Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 21.4% (this school: 31.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palm Lane Global Academy** — 0.3 mi away, 29.65% (this school: 23.8%)
- **Ross (Betsy) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 37.1% (this school: 23.8%)
- **Loara High** — 0.7 mi away, 39.85% (this school: 23.8%)
- **Loara Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 53.9% (this school: 23.8%)
- **Madison (James) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 40.2% (this school: 23.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Palm Lane Global Academy** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ross (Betsy) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Loara High** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Loara Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Madison (James) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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