# Valley Academy

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/valley-academy-el-centro/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/valley-academy-el-centro

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069101013814`
- **School name**: Valley Academy
- **Location**: El Centro, CA 92243
- **Address**: 253 East Ross Ave.
- **District**: Imperial County Office of Education (LEAID `0691010`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.78092, -115.54004
- **Phone**: (760)312-5525
- **Website**: https://www.icoe.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 205
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 10
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 7.6% proficient — 37 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 66.7% (cohort of 63)
- **2021**: 34.5% (cohort of 58)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 37.8% (14 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 59.5% (94 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.5% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.6% (10 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**: 96.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.8% — 39 students
- **English Learners**: 27.4% — 60 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,350
- **Federal share**: $4,487
- **State + local share**: $23,863
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 219
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $187,000,000
- **Federal share**: 20.4%
- **State share**: 52.0%
- **Local share**: 27.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $32,377,005

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $45,385
- **Poverty rate**: 27.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.9%
- **Unemployment**: 17.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,023
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.9 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.26 miles (EL CENTRO DOGWOOD RD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: EL CENTRO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.17989 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Desert Oasis High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 10.69% (this school: 37.8%)
- **Phoenix Rising High** — 0.6 mi away, 8.33% (this school: 37.8%)
- **Booker T. Washington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 22.1% (this school: 37.8%)
- **Desert Garden Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 19.3% (this school: 37.8%)
- **Harding Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 15.4% (this school: 37.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Desert Oasis High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 23.9% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Booker T. Washington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 24.55% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Desert Garden Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 32.2% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Harding Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 39.8% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Central Union High** — 1.6 mi away, 38.1% (this school: 13.8%)

### graduation rate
- **Desert Oasis High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 79.6% (this school: 66.7%)
- **Mt. Signal Virtual Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 67.7% (this school: 66.7%)
- **Central Union High** — 1.6 mi away, 95.8% (this school: 66.7%)
- **Southwest High** — 2.4 mi away, 95.7% (this school: 66.7%)
- **Imperial High** — 5.1 mi away, 98.7% (this school: 66.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Southwest High** — 2.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Imperial County Special Education** — 2.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Dogwood Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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