# Pepper Tree Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pepper-tree-elementary-upland

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060001609678`
- **School name**: Pepper Tree Elementary
- **Location**: Upland, CA 91784
- **Address**: 1045 West 18th St.
- **District**: Upland Unified (LEAID `0600016`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.12970, -117.66710
- **Phone**: (909)949-9635
- **Website**: https://pt.upland.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 719
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 41.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 63.9% proficient — 449 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.6% (42 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.4% (42 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 36.4%
- **Black/African American**: 13.6%
- **Asian**: 4.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 37.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.0% — 82 students
- **English Learners**: 2.8% — 21 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 36 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,247
- **Federal share**: $1,674
- **State + local share**: $16,573
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 745
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,540,842
- **Federal share**: 10.2%
- **State share**: 59.5%
- **Local share**: 30.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,776,983

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $156,429
- **Poverty rate**: 8.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 44.9%
- **Unemployment**: 10.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,034
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.0 miles (STRINGFELLOW)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.01 miles (RIDGEWAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: UPLAND, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 15.0374 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Upland High** — 1.8 mi away, 2.62% (this school: 5.6%)
- **Alta Loma High** — 3.2 mi away, 1.71% (this school: 5.6%)
- **Claremont High** — 3.3 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 5.6%)
- **Chaffey High** — 3.5 mi away, 4.87% (this school: 5.6%)
- **Buena Vista Arts-Integrated** — 3.7 mi away, 3.6% (this school: 5.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Floyd M. Stork Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 73.2% (this school: 71.95%)
- **Alta Loma High** — 3.2 mi away, 72.75% (this school: 71.95%)
- **Bonita High** — 5.9 mi away, 77.95% (this school: 71.95%)
- **Oak Mesa Elementary** — 6.2 mi away, 73.75% (this school: 71.95%)
- **Los Osos High** — 6.5 mi away, 76.05% (this school: 71.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Floyd M. Stork Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **El Roble Intermediate** — 4.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Vista del Valle Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Deer Canyon Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Banyan Elementary** — 5.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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