# Foster Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/foster-elementary-san-diego

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063432005462`
- **School name**: Foster Elementary
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92120
- **Address**: 6550 51st St.
- **District**: San Diego Unified (LEAID `0634320`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 32.79249, -117.08457
- **Phone**: (619)510-4100
- **Website**: https://www.foster.sandiegounified.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 518
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.3%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.7% proficient — 210 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 28.9% (155 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.7% (58 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 53.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.6% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 13.8% — 69 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,352
- **Federal share**: $4,351
- **State + local share**: $19,001
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 502
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,705,281
- **Federal share**: 14.4%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 60.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,484,916

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $90,282
- **Poverty rate**: 5.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,949
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 38.5 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 31
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.21 miles (SALLY WONG PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.12701 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Magnolia Science Academy San Diego** — 0.2 mi away, 19.9% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Lewis Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 14.7% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Marvin Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 10.8% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Hearst Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 10.5% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Hardy Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 23.2% (this school: 28.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Magnolia Science Academy San Diego** — 0.2 mi away, 70.7% (this school: 39.7%)
- **Lewis Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 68.9% (this school: 39.7%)
- **Marvin Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66.8% (this school: 39.7%)
- **Hearst Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 71.85% (this school: 39.7%)
- **Hardy Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 57.65% (this school: 39.7%)

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