# Pioneer Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064188003327`
- **School name**: Pioneer Elementary
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95341
- **Address**: 2950 Gerard Ave.
- **District**: Weaver Union (LEAID `0641880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.28009, -120.43482
- **Phone**: (209)725-7111
- **Website**: https://www.weaverusd.org/pes

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,055
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 51
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.2%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.6% proficient — 479 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.3% (265 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.2% (284 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (4 students) [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**: 80.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 110 students
- **English Learners**: 22.0% — 234 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,836
- **Federal share**: $2,855
- **State + local share**: $14,981
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,062
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,932,976
- **Federal share**: 13.4%
- **State share**: 75.3%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,185,992

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,527
- **Poverty rate**: 37.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,251
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 43.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.3 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.17 miles (FORMER SIMPSON CLEANER S PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.39169 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Weaver Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 21% (this school: 23.3%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 1.1 mi away, 4.71% (this school: 23.3%)
- **Ada Givens Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 15.8% (this school: 23.3%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 18.9% (this school: 23.3%)
- **Sequoia High** — 2.5 mi away, 5.66% (this school: 23.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Golden Valley High** — 1.1 mi away, 44.2% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Donn B. Chenoweth Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 56.75% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Merced High** — 3.5 mi away, 47.2% (this school: 43.6%)
- **El Capitan High** — 6.4 mi away, 57.3% (this school: 43.6%)

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