# Walker Junior High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/walker-junior-high-la-palma/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/walker-junior-high-la-palma

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060263000191`
- **School name**: Walker Junior High
- **Location**: La Palma, CA 90623
- **Address**: 8132 Walker St.
- **District**: Anaheim Union High (LEAID `0602630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.84280, -118.03640
- **Phone**: (714)220-4051
- **Website**: http://walker.auhsd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 890
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 64.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.9% proficient — 812 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.2% (143 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.4% (54 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (28 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 44.8%
- **Black/African American**: 29.1%
- **Asian**: 4.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 16.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 4.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 63.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.3% — 129 students
- **English Learners**: 11.8% — 100 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 53 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,527
- **Federal share**: $969
- **State + local share**: $18,558
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 845
### 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**: $117,575
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.3%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,273
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 133
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.03 miles (LOS ALAMITOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF LA PALMA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **John F. Kennedy High** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.2%)
- **George B. Miller Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 9.8% (this school: 16.2%)
- **Los Coyotes Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 4.1% (this school: 16.2%)
- **Clara J. King Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 12.8% (this school: 16.2%)
- **Steve Luther Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 13.2% (this school: 16.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **John F. Kennedy High** — 0.1 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 41.95%)
- **George B. Miller Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 61.5% (this school: 41.95%)
- **Los Coyotes Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 41.95%)
- **Clara J. King Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 45.4% (this school: 41.95%)
- **San Marino Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 56.35% (this school: 41.95%)

### math proficiency
- **George B. Miller Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Los Coyotes Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **San Marino Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Steve Luther Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Buena Terra Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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