# Luther Burbank Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062460003693`
- **School name**: Luther Burbank Elementary
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95340
- **Address**: 609 East Alexander Ave.
- **District**: Merced City Elementary (LEAID `0624600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.31572, -120.46331
- **Phone**: (209)385-6674
- **Website**: https://burbank.mercedcsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 716
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.9%

## 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)**: 46.6% proficient — 390 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.7% (151 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.0% (117 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (5 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**: 70.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.0% — 22 students
- **English Learners**: 5.9% — 43 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,207
- **Federal share**: $2,290
- **State + local share**: $13,917
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 727
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,734,481
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 74.4%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,443,783

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $73,367
- **Poverty rate**: 10.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,248
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.6 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.44 miles (MERCED CENTER BROWNFIELD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCED
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Merced High** — 0.7 mi away, 6.82% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 18.9% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 12.5% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Allan Peterson Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 19.1% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Ada Givens Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 15.8% (this school: 19.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Merced High** — 0.7 mi away, 47.2% (this school: 33.3%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 33.3%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 56.75% (this school: 33.3%)
- **John Muir Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 34.6% (this school: 33.3%)
- **Allan Peterson Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 40.5% (this school: 33.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Merced High** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Allan Peterson Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ada Givens Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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