# Lange (Dorothea) Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062308011785`
- **School name**: Lange (Dorothea) Elementary
- **Location**: Nipomo, CA 93444
- **Address**: 1661 Via Alta Mesa
- **District**: Lucia Mar Unified (LEAID `0623080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.01530, -120.51530
- **Phone**: (805)474-3670
- **Website**: https://lange.luciamarschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 577
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.5% proficient — 321 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 8.2% (48 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.8% (41 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (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**: 67.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.2% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 22.1% — 125 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,521
- **Federal share**: $1,490
- **State + local share**: $14,031
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 566
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,723,272
- **Federal share**: 10.9%
- **State share**: 30.7%
- **Local share**: 58.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,834,678

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $102,786
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,728
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.6 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.44 miles (WETLANDS PROJECT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NIPOMO COMM SERVICES DIST
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.6651 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Nipomo High** — 2.8 mi away, 3.34% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 2.9 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Sanchez (David J.) Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 5.6% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Santa Maria High** — 6.7 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Adam (William Laird) Elementary** — 6.9 mi away, 6.7% (this school: 8.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 2.9 mi away, 81.8% (this school: 48.25%)
- **Nipomo Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 52.9% (this school: 48.25%)
- **Mesa Middle** — 5.6 mi away, 48.75% (this school: 48.25%)
- **Trivium Charter** — 7.7 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 48.25%)
- **Arroyo Grande High** — 7.8 mi away, 62% (this school: 48.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 2.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Harloe Elementary** — 8.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Fairgrove Elementary** — 8.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Branch Elementary** — 8.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 9.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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