# Peggy Heller Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/peggy-heller-elementary-atwater

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060342004672`
- **School name**: Peggy Heller Elementary
- **Location**: Atwater, CA 95301
- **Address**: 201 Lake View Dr.
- **District**: Atwater Elementary (LEAID `0603420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 37.37060, -120.59380
- **Phone**: (209)357-6517
- **Website**: https://www.aesd.edu

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 712
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.8%

## 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)**: 46.5% proficient — 462 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 9.8% (72 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.0% (111 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (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)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 65.6%
- **Black/African American**: 4.3%
- **Asian**: 1.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 24.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 3.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 65.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 91 students
- **English Learners**: 16.7% — 118 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,666
- **Federal share**: $3,064
- **State + local share**: $14,602
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 707
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,223,527
- **Federal share**: 12.3%
- **State share**: 79.1%
- **Local share**: 8.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,853,111

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $63,588
- **Poverty rate**: 20.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.3%
- **Unemployment**: 16.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $981
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.7 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.19 miles (REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MERCED BROWNFIELD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ATWATER
- **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**: 7.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Atwater High** — 1.3 mi away, 4.1% (this school: 9.8%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 1.5 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 9.8%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 1.9 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 9.8%)
- **Campus Park Elementary** — 6.8 mi away, 9.4% (this school: 9.8%)
- **El Capitan High** — 6.8 mi away, 7.6% (this school: 9.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 49.25%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 57% (this school: 49.25%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 61.75% (this school: 49.25%)
- **McSwain Elementary** — 5.0 mi away, 51% (this school: 49.25%)
- **El Capitan High** — 6.8 mi away, 57.3% (this school: 49.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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