# Pioneer Drive Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pioneer-drive-elementary-bakersfield/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pioneer-drive-elementary-bakersfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060363000315`
- **School name**: Pioneer Drive Elementary
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93306
- **Address**: 4404 Pioneer Dr.
- **District**: Bakersfield City (LEAID `0603630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.36954, -118.93569
- **Phone**: (661)631-5450
- **Website**: https://pioneer.bcsd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 562
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.2% proficient — 309 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.0% (106 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.8% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.9% (17 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 3.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 75 students
- **English Learners**: 42.0% — 245 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,756
- **Federal share**: $3,245
- **State + local share**: $19,511
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 583
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,118,232
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 77.8%
- **Local share**: 6.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,808,723

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,288
- **Poverty rate**: 42.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.3%
- **Unemployment**: 17.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,247
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 42.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.2 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.46 miles (231 QUANTICO AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAKERSFIELD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.0743 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Foothill High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 17%)
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 16.4% (this school: 17%)
- **Zephyr Lane Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 11.4% (this school: 17%)
- **Shirley Lane Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 17%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 1.8 mi away, 1.28% (this school: 17%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sierra Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 49.15% (this school: 37.1%)
- **Voorhies Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 37.95% (this school: 37.1%)
- **Foothill High** — 1.1 mi away, 53.2% (this school: 37.1%)
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 57.95% (this school: 37.1%)
- **Harding Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 46.55% (this school: 37.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Foothill High** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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