# Ward (E. W.) Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061146001277`
- **School name**: Ward (E. W.) Elementary
- **Location**: Downey, CA 90242
- **Address**: 8851 East Adoree St.
- **District**: Downey Unified (LEAID `0611460`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.91500, -118.14110
- **Phone**: (562)904-3591

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 543
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.2% proficient — 302 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 26.9% (172 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.2% (132 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 93.2%
- **Black/African American**: 2.1%
- **Asian**: 1.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.2% — 114 students
- **English Learners**: 25.8% — 161 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 30 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,152
- **Federal share**: $2,044
- **State + local share**: $15,108
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 625
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,219,487
- **Federal share**: 12.4%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 20.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,245,182

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $91,107
- **Poverty rate**: 11.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,809
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 178
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.93 miles (SOUTH GATE FORMER RANCHO MARKET SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DOWNEY - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-02-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sussman (Edward A.) Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 25.6% (this school: 26.9%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 14.8% (this school: 26.9%)
- **Theodore Roosevelt** — 0.9 mi away, 25.5% (this school: 26.9%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 19.9% (this school: 26.9%)
- **Harry Wirtz Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 16.5% (this school: 26.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sussman (Edward A.) Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 41.15% (this school: 40.1%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 41.8% (this school: 40.1%)
- **Imperial Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 45.8% (this school: 40.1%)
- **Alameda Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 43.2% (this school: 40.1%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 57.35% (this school: 40.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Warren (Earl) High** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Downey High** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Rio San Gabriel Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Will Rogers Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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