# Richard E. Byrd Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271002878`
- **School name**: Richard E. Byrd Middle
- **Location**: Sun Valley, CA 91352
- **Address**: 8501 Arleta Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.22398, -118.40792
- **Phone**: (818)394-4300
- **Website**: https://www.byrdmiddleschool.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 933
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 40.1% proficient — 900 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.4% (237 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.0% (176 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.0% — 184 students
- **English Learners**: 22.6% — 219 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 132 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,670
- **Federal share**: $3,963
- **State + local share**: $19,707
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 968
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,133
- **Poverty rate**: 8.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.0%
- **Unemployment**: 8.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,050
- **Foreign-born residents**: 55.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.0 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 136
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.22 miles (ROSCOE SITE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **John H. Francis Polytechnic** — 0.2 mi away, 1.22% (this school: 23.4%)
- **Robert H. Lewis Continuation** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 23.4%)
- **Strathern Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 23.3% (this school: 23.4%)
- **North Valley Military Institute College Preparatory Academy** — 1.0 mi away, 10.11% (this school: 23.4%)
- **Charles Leroy Lowman Special Ed and Career Transition Center** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 23.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **John H. Francis Polytechnic** — 0.2 mi away, 47.55% (this school: 39.05%)
- **Alliance Marine - Innovation and Technology 6-12 Complex** — 1.3 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 39.05%)
- **Coldwater Canyon Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 46.8% (this school: 39.05%)
- **Pacoima Middle** — 2.0 mi away, 39.2% (this school: 39.05%)
- **ISANA Cardinal Academy** — 2.2 mi away, 41.5% (this school: 39.05%)

### math proficiency
- **John H. Francis Polytechnic** — 0.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Strathern Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Saticoy Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Alliance Marine - Innovation and Technology 6-12 Complex** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Vena Avenue Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/richard-e-byrd-middle-sun-valley/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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