# Orcutt School for Independent Study

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062871014591`
- **School name**: Orcutt School for Independent Study
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93455
- **Address**: 1220 Oak Knoll Rd.
- **District**: Orcutt Union Elementary (LEAID `0628710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.86950, -120.41350
- **Phone**: (805)960-5572
- **Website**: https://www.orcuttschools.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 44
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 2
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.6% proficient — 30 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 31.6% (24 students) [source: ca_dashboard]

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.8%

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,596
- **Federal share**: $0
- **State + local share**: $9,596
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 44
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,853,930
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 55.5%
- **Local share**: 37.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,028,794

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,115
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,269
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.4 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.91 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA MARIA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ralph Dunlap Elementary** — 0.0 mi away, 15.2% (this school: 31.6%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 0.3 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 31.6%)
- **Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria** — 0.5 mi away, 21.1% (this school: 31.6%)
- **Pine Grove Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 8.3% (this school: 31.6%)
- **Patterson Road Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 15.3% (this school: 31.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 0.3 mi away, 51.65% (this school: 40.3%)
- **Pine Grove Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 48% (this school: 40.3%)
- **Patterson Road Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 56.85% (this school: 40.3%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 1.1 mi away, 61% (this school: 40.3%)
- **Orcutt Junior High** — 1.6 mi away, 49.4% (this school: 40.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Patterson Road Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Orcutt Junior High** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orcutt-school-for-independent-study-santa-maria/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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