# Fern Drive Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061473001792`
- **School name**: Fern Drive Elementary
- **Location**: Fullerton, CA 92833
- **Address**: 1400 West Fern Dr.
- **District**: Fullerton Elementary (LEAID `0614730`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.87850, -117.95160
- **Phone**: (714)447-7710
- **Website**: https://www.fullertonsd.org/fern

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 372
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.1% proficient — 207 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 4.5% (18 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.3% (25 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 44.1%
- **Black/African American**: 17.6%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 27.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 55.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 49 students
- **English Learners**: 14.1% — 54 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,413
- **Federal share**: $360
- **State + local share**: $18,053
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 382
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,712,268
- **Federal share**: 16.2%
- **State share**: 43.6%
- **Local share**: 40.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,825,957

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $125,224
- **Poverty rate**: 10.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.2%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,875
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 165
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.23 miles (UPRR RIGHT OF WAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF FULLERTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sunny Hills High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 4.5%)
- **Robert C. Fisler Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 2.3% (this school: 4.5%)
- **Laguna Road Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 2.1% (this school: 4.5%)
- **Fullerton Union High** — 1.7 mi away, 0.49% (this school: 4.5%)
- **Buena Park High** — 1.9 mi away, 0.87% (this school: 4.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sunny Hills High** — 0.4 mi away, 75.25% (this school: 42.55%)
- **Golden Hill School for Creative & Performing Arts** — 0.7 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 42.55%)
- **Robert C. Fisler Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 70.1% (this school: 42.55%)
- **D. Russell Parks Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 73.15% (this school: 42.55%)
- **Sunset Lane Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 63.9% (this school: 42.55%)

### math proficiency
- **Sunny Hills High** — 0.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Golden Hill School for Creative & Performing Arts** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Robert C. Fisler Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **D. Russell Parks Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Sunset Lane Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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