# Leal (Frank C.) Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060162000021`
- **School name**: Leal (Frank C.) Elementary
- **Location**: Cerritos, CA 90703
- **Address**: 12920 Droxford St.
- **District**: ABC Unified (LEAID `0601620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.86080, -118.05600
- **Phone**: (562)229-7880
- **Website**: https://www.leales.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 774
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 74.5% proficient — 450 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 7.4% (59 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (18 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (3 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.2%
- **Black/African American**: 62.9%
- **Asian**: 4.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 9.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.6% — 44 students
- **English Learners**: 9.9% — 78 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,049
- **Federal share**: $1,988
- **State + local share**: $15,061
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 788
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,956,800
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 68.2%
- **Local share**: 22.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,513,526

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $142,688
- **Poverty rate**: 12.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 61.7%
- **Unemployment**: 3.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,636
- **Foreign-born residents**: 50.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.4 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 113
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.88 miles (LOS ALAMITOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CERRITOS - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Cerritos High** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 7.4%)
- **Cerritos Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 2.2% (this school: 7.4%)
- **Kennedy (John F.) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 7.4%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 7.4%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 1.2 mi away, 2.7% (this school: 7.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Cerritos High** — 0.6 mi away, 67.75% (this school: 56.25%)
- **Carver (Charles J.) Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 69.8% (this school: 56.25%)
- **Elliott (William F) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 59.15% (this school: 56.25%)
- **Cerritos Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 56.25%)
- **Steve Luther Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 59.3% (this school: 56.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Carver (Charles J.) Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Steve Luther Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Stowers(Cecil B.) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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