# Vandenberg Middle

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/vandenberg-middle-vandenberg-air-force-base

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062241002690`
- **School name**: Vandenberg Middle
- **Location**: Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA 93437
- **Address**: Mountain View Blvd.
- **District**: Lompoc Unified (LEAID `0622410`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.75059, -120.51777
- **Phone**: (805)742-2700
- **Website**: https://www.lusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 565
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.6% proficient — 519 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 26.4% (160 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.4% (66 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (8 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**: 56.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.4% — 94 students
- **English Learners**: 5.4% — 31 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 51 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,216
- **Federal share**: $622
- **State + local share**: $15,594
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 574
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,888,937
- **Federal share**: 11.7%
- **State share**: 62.9%
- **Local share**: 25.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,135,235

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Poverty rate**: 0.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 100.0%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.9 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.74 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.2972 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Manzanita Public Charter** — 0.6 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 26.4%)
- **Crestview Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 7.1% (this school: 26.4%)
- **Cabrillo High** — 3.6 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 26.4%)
- **Buena Vista Elementary** — 4.1 mi away, 11.1% (this school: 26.4%)
- **Maple High** — 4.7 mi away, 8% (this school: 26.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Manzanita Public Charter** — 0.6 mi away, 65.7% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Crestview Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 50% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Cabrillo High** — 3.6 mi away, 38.55% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Buena Vista Elementary** — 4.1 mi away, 45.4% (this school: 38.3%)
- **Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy** — 6.1 mi away, 38.65% (this school: 38.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Manzanita Public Charter** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Cabrillo High** — 3.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 8.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Orcutt Junior High** — 8.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Arthur Hapgood Elementary** — 8.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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