# Paularino Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paularino-elementary-costa-mesa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062724004127`
- **School name**: Paularino Elementary
- **Location**: Costa Mesa, CA 92626
- **Address**: 1060 Paularino Ave.
- **District**: Newport-Mesa Unified (LEAID `0627240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.68282, -117.90236
- **Phone**: (714)424-7950
- **Website**: https://www.nmusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 371
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.7% proficient — 179 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.2% (68 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.2% (113 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 72.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.5% — 66 students
- **English Learners**: 27.0% — 96 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 33 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,777
- **Federal share**: $2,388
- **State + local share**: $25,389
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 356
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,018,873
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 17.7%
- **Local share**: 74.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,756,263

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $112,261
- **Poverty rate**: 11.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,848
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.6 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 197
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.17 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sonora Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 15.2% (this school: 18.2%)
- **California Pacific Charter - San Diego** — 0.7 mi away, 16.1% (this school: 18.2%)
- **California Pacific Charter- Los Angeles** — 0.7 mi away, 16.6% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Killybrooke Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 16.8% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Costa Mesa High** — 0.9 mi away, 15.2% (this school: 18.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Killybrooke Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 67.45% (this school: 48.85%)
- **Costa Mesa High** — 0.9 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 48.85%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 48.85%)
- **Charles W. Tewinkle Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 61.4% (this school: 48.85%)
- **California Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 68.3% (this school: 48.85%)

### math proficiency
- **Killybrooke Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Costa Mesa High** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Charles W. Tewinkle Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **California Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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