# Westlake Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/westlake-elementary-santa-cruz

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063559006069`
- **School name**: Westlake Elementary
- **Location**: Santa Cruz, CA 95060
- **Address**: 1000 High St.
- **District**: Santa Cruz City Elementary (LEAID `0635590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 36.97860, -122.04910
- **Phone**: (831)429-3878
- **Website**: https://westlake.sccs.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 453
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 24.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 62.1% proficient — 230 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.7% (91 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.3% (39 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 24.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.4% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 6.4% — 30 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 28 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,072
- **Federal share**: $3,059
- **State + local share**: $19,013
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 471
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $137,806
- **Poverty rate**: 14.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,323
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (WATKINS JOHNSON CO STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.06 miles (POGONIP FARM AND GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA CRUZ WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.20139 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Santa Cruz County Court** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Santa Cruz High** — 1.0 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Pacific Collegiate Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Alternative Family Education** — 1.9 mi away, 7% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Ark Independent Studies** — 2.0 mi away, 7.69% (this school: 18.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Santa Cruz High** — 1.0 mi away, 73.05% (this school: 62.1%)
- **Pacific Collegiate Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 75.4% (this school: 62.1%)
- **Gault Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 63% (this school: 62.1%)
- **Brook Knoll Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 71.25% (this school: 62.1%)
- **De Laveaga Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 66.2% (this school: 62.1%)

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