# Pepper Drive Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pepper-drive-elementary-el-cajon

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063588006142`
- **School name**: Pepper Drive Elementary
- **Location**: El Cajon, CA 92020
- **Address**: 1935 Marlinda Way
- **District**: Santee (LEAID `0635880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.82740, -116.95310
- **Phone**: (619)956-5100
- **Website**: https://www.santeesd.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 661
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.7% proficient — 430 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.9% (81 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.2% (153 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.6% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (10 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.7% — 96 students
- **English Learners**: 15.0% — 98 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 36 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,633
- **Federal share**: $876
- **State + local share**: $15,757
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 655
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,064,511
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 35.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,733,080

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $116,711
- **Poverty rate**: 7.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,416
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 40.0 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 23
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.88 miles (FORMER MOBIL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: Sycuan
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.25112 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Winter Gardens Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 10.5% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Altus Schools East County** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Kidinnu Academy** — 1.6 mi away, 1.1% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Chaparral High** — 1.8 mi away, 3.95% (this school: 11.9%)
- **MERIT Academy** — 1.8 mi away, 10.94% (this school: 11.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Hill Creek Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 52.15% (this school: 50.85%)
- **Riverview Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 56.6% (this school: 50.85%)
- **River Valley Charter** — 2.0 mi away, 63.35% (this school: 50.85%)
- **Santana High** — 2.3 mi away, 60.8% (this school: 50.85%)
- **Rio Seco Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 61.55% (this school: 50.85%)

### math proficiency
- **Winter Gardens Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Kidinnu Academy** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Hill Creek Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **River Valley Charter** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Santana High** — 2.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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

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