# La Mesa Dale Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062025002431`
- **School name**: La Mesa Dale Elementary
- **Location**: La Mesa, CA 91941
- **Address**: 4370 Parks Ave.
- **District**: La Mesa-Spring Valley (LEAID `0620250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.75740, -117.03270
- **Phone**: (619)668-5740
- **Website**: https://www.lmsvschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 460
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 68.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.5% proficient — 246 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.9% (92 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.4% (75 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (9 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**: 66.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.7% — 66 students
- **English Learners**: 15.6% — 81 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,676
- **Federal share**: $1,535
- **State + local share**: $16,141
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 520
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,892,570
- **Federal share**: 18.5%
- **State share**: 50.7%
- **Local share**: 30.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,985,325

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,667
- **Poverty rate**: 17.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,520
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 41.9 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.84 miles (SECOND CHANCE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HELIX WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.25112 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **La Mesa Arts Academy** — 0.2 mi away, 12.3% (this school: 16.9%)
- **Helix High** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.9%)
- **The Learning Choice Academy - East County** — 1.1 mi away, 1% (this school: 16.9%)
- **Lemon Avenue Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 13.9% (this school: 16.9%)
- **JCS - Manzanita** — 1.7 mi away, 13.1% (this school: 16.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **La Mesa Arts Academy** — 0.2 mi away, 69.55% (this school: 56.75%)
- **Helix High** — 0.3 mi away, 75.8% (this school: 56.75%)
- **The Learning Choice Academy - East County** — 1.1 mi away, 57.15% (this school: 56.75%)
- **Maryland Avenue Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 58.05% (this school: 56.75%)
- **Rolando Park Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 66.95% (this school: 56.75%)

### math proficiency
- **La Mesa Arts Academy** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Helix High** — 0.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Vista La Mesa Academy** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Rolando Park Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Lemon Avenue Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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