# Duane E. Furman Independent Study

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062334004611`
- **School name**: Duane E. Furman Independent Study
- **Location**: Madera, CA 93637
- **Address**: 955 West Pecan Ave.
- **District**: Madera Unified (LEAID `0623340`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 36.93865, -120.06854
- **Phone**: (559)675-4482
- **Website**: http://furman.maderausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 348
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 32.7% proficient — 120 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 87.3% (cohort of 102)
- **2021**: 67.0% (cohort of 73)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 53.5% (100 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 115.8% (169 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (7 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**: 92.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.7% — 6 students
- **English Learners**: 8.1% — 28 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,552
- **Federal share**: $7,896
- **State + local share**: $15,656
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 348
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,820,133
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 70.9%
- **Local share**: 13.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,645,185

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $88,771
- **Poverty rate**: 17.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.5%
- **Unemployment**: 10.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,078
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.8 miles (INDUSTRIAL WASTE PROCESSING)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.17 miles (ROAD 28 PROPOSED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MADERA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-07-06

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.11189 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Madera Unified Adult Transition Program** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 53.5%)
- **Madera South High** — 0.2 mi away, 1.08% (this school: 53.5%)
- **Alpha Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 22.4% (this school: 53.5%)
- **James Madison Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 15% (this school: 53.5%)
- **Madera High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 53.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Madera South High** — 0.2 mi away, 33.9% (this school: 26.35%)
- **Alpha Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 29.55% (this school: 26.35%)
- **James Madison Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 36.6% (this school: 26.35%)
- **Madera High** — 1.1 mi away, 57.5% (this school: 26.35%)
- **Parkwood Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 45.65% (this school: 26.35%)

### graduation rate
- **Madera South High** — 0.2 mi away, 93.9% (this school: 87.3%)
- **Madera High** — 1.1 mi away, 93% (this school: 87.3%)
- **Sherman Thomas Charter High** — 3.1 mi away, 94.4% (this school: 87.3%)
- **Matilda Torres High** — 3.6 mi away, 95.6% (this school: 87.3%)
- **Liberty High** — 9.6 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 87.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Alpha Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Madera High** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Parkwood Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Sherman Thomas Charter** — 3.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 3.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/duane-e-furman-independent-study-madera/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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