# Cottonwood Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cottonwood-elementary-palmdale/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cottonwood-elementary-palmdale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064212010141`
- **School name**: Cottonwood Elementary
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93551
- **Address**: 2740 West Ave. P-8
- **District**: Westside Union Elementary (LEAID `0642120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.59335, -118.18053
- **Phone**: (661)267-2825

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 652
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.1%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 55.4% proficient — 349 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.9% (118 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.3% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 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**: 57.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.5% — 46 students
- **English Learners**: 7.8% — 48 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,546
- **Federal share**: $1,152
- **State + local share**: $12,394
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 615
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,011,678
- **Federal share**: 7.1%
- **State share**: 65.5%
- **Local share**: 27.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,904,110

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $115,308
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,635
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.1 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 25.47 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Highland High** — 0.3 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 17.9%)
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 1.5 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 17.9%)
- **Hillview Middle** — 2.5 mi away, 16% (this school: 17.9%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 3.3 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 17.9%)
- **R. Rex Parris High** — 3.5 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 17.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 3.1 mi away, 56.4% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 3.3 mi away, 71.25% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 57.55% (this school: 55.4%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 5.9 mi away, 75.65% (this school: 55.4%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 6.7 mi away, 61.4% (this school: 55.4%)

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