# Joseph A. Gascon Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062547003794`
- **School name**: Joseph A. Gascon Elementary
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90022
- **Address**: 630 South Leonard St.
- **District**: Montebello Unified (LEAID `0625470`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.02073, -118.14192
- **Phone**: (323)721-2025
- **Website**: https://www.montebello.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 513
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.1% proficient — 259 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.2% (102 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.5% (53 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (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**: 79.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 56.1% — 286 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,172
- **Federal share**: $1,130
- **State + local share**: $14,042
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 510
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,329,038
- **Federal share**: 24.4%
- **State share**: 57.9%
- **Local share**: 17.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,895,904

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,369
- **Poverty rate**: 11.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.8%
- **Unemployment**: 1.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,389
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (OPERATING INDUSTRIES INC LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 236
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.15 miles (WHITTIER LA VERNE PARKING LOT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES-CITY, DEPT. OF WATER & POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Eastmont Intermediate** — 0.2 mi away, 15.8% (this school: 19.2%)
- **James A. Garfield Senior High** — 1.0 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Monterey Continuation** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Montebello High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.2%)
- **Schurr High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.28% (this school: 19.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **KIPP Poder Public** — 0.0 mi away, 41.95% (this school: 27.05%)
- **Eastmont Intermediate** — 0.2 mi away, 29.15% (this school: 27.05%)
- **Montebello Park Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 28.05% (this school: 27.05%)
- **KIPP Raices Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 32.25% (this school: 27.05%)
- **Fourth Street Primary Center** — 0.8 mi away, 40.35% (this school: 27.05%)

### math proficiency
- **KIPP Poder Public** — 0.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **KIPP Raices Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Fourth Street Primary Center** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Arts In Action Community Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Griffith Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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

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