# Shell Beach Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/shell-beach-elementary-pismo-beach

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062308003529`
- **School name**: Shell Beach Elementary
- **Location**: Pismo Beach, CA 93449
- **Address**: 2100 Shell Beach Rd.
- **District**: Lucia Mar Unified (LEAID `0623080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.15950, -120.67870
- **Phone**: (805)474-3760
- **Website**: https://shellbeach.luciamarschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 330
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 33.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Green
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Green
  - ela: Blue
  - chronic_absent: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.5% proficient — 200 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 8.2% (30 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.1% (16 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (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**: 35.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.7% — 37 students
- **English Learners**: 2.0% — 7 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,465
- **Federal share**: $1,458
- **State + local share**: $15,007
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 347
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,723,272
- **Federal share**: 10.9%
- **State share**: 30.7%
- **Local share**: 58.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,834,678

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $106,802
- **Poverty rate**: 10.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 59.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,271
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.8 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.41 miles (PISMO BEACH BELLO ST 1000)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PISMO BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 6
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 3.9523 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ocean View Elementary** — 5.1 mi away, 5.9% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Arroyo Grande High** — 6.3 mi away, 1.21% (this school: 8.2%)
- **PEEP - PREPARE** — 8.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.2%)
- **Branch Elementary** — 8.6 mi away, 5.8% (this school: 8.2%)
- **San Luis Obispo High** — 8.7 mi away, 1.76% (this school: 8.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter** — 3.1 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 70.25%)
- **Los Ranchos Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 71.45% (this school: 70.25%)
- **Laguna Middle** — 7.3 mi away, 70.4% (this school: 70.25%)
- **Branch Elementary** — 8.6 mi away, 72.6% (this school: 70.25%)
- **San Luis Obispo High** — 8.7 mi away, 72.15% (this school: 70.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter** — 3.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Los Ranchos Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **C L Smith Elementary** — 7.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Laguna Middle** — 7.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Branch Elementary** — 8.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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