# Descanso Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062610003902`
- **School name**: Descanso Elementary
- **Location**: Descanso, CA 91916
- **Address**: 24842 Viejas Blvd.
- **District**: Mountain Empire Unified (LEAID `0626100`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.85894, -116.61357
- **Phone**: (619)445-2126

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 188
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 9
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 55.9% proficient — 113 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.1% (43 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.5% (33 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (3 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**: 47.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 29 students
- **English Learners**: 2.8% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,347
- **Federal share**: $1,884
- **State + local share**: $15,463
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 214
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,832,188
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 53.7%
- **Local share**: 31.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,501,145

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $93,370
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.6%
- **Unemployment**: 0.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,163
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 52.2 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 20.47 miles (KKAR SMOG AND AUTO SERVICES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CUYAMACA OUTDOOR SCHOOL
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 12
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.76552 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JCS - Pine Valley** — 5.5 mi away, 4.8% (this school: 19.1%)
- **Sunrise High (Continuation)** — 5.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.1%)
- **Hillside Junior/Senior High** — 5.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.1%)
- **The Heights Charter** — 8.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.1%)
- **Mountain Empire High** — 11.1 mi away, 1.18% (this school: 19.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Pine Valley Middle** — 5.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 60.95%)
- **The Heights Charter** — 8.4 mi away, 61.05% (this school: 60.95%)

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