# Tunnell (Martin Luther) Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060558009318`
- **School name**: Tunnell (Martin Luther) Elementary
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93454
- **Address**: 1248 East Dena Way
- **District**: Santa Maria-Bonita (LEAID `0605580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.96450, -120.41460
- **Phone**: (805)361-7940

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 917
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 33.3% proficient — 439 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.0% (130 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.7% (63 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (24 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 89.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.3%
- **Asian**: 0.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 89 students
- **English Learners**: 36.3% — 317 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 34 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,107
- **Federal share**: $2,315
- **State + local share**: $16,792
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 874
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,810,429
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 68.7%
- **Local share**: 19.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,684,230

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $99,614
- **Poverty rate**: 15.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.6%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,149
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.2 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.43 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA MARIA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 0.8 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 14%)
- **Alvin Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 9.8% (this school: 14%)
- **El Camino Junior High** — 1.4 mi away, 10% (this school: 14%)
- **Bruce (Robert) Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 10.6% (this school: 14%)
- **Miller (Isaac) Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 13.7% (this school: 14%)

### ela proficiency
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 0.8 mi away, 43.3% (this school: 35.65%)
- **Trivium Charter** — 2.2 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 35.65%)
- **Kunst (Tommie) Junior High** — 2.4 mi away, 37.5% (this school: 35.65%)
- **Bill Libbon Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 44.05% (this school: 35.65%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 67.45% (this school: 35.65%)

### math proficiency
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 5.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Nipomo Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Dana Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Lange (Dorothea) Elementary** — 6.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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