# Empire Gardens Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/empire-gardens-elementary-san-jose

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063459005711`
- **School name**: Empire Gardens Elementary
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95112
- **Address**: 1060 East Empire St.
- **District**: San Jose Unified (LEAID `0634590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.35469, -121.87556
- **Phone**: (408)535-6221

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 214
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 27.2% proficient — 88 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 43.6% (113 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.4% (59 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.0% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (5 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**: 76.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 25.7% — 58 students
- **English Learners**: 50.4% — 114 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,279
- **Federal share**: $2,593
- **State + local share**: $21,686
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 226
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,727,655
- **Federal share**: 8.7%
- **State share**: 23.6%
- **Local share**: 67.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,538,692

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $147,773
- **Poverty rate**: 8.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.1%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,627
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.6 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 12
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 189
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.48 miles (SAN JOSE FAMILY SHELTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.98235 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ACE Inspire Academy** — 0.2 mi away, 26.6% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Rocketship Discovery Prep** — 0.3 mi away, 25.5% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Sunrise Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 31.3% (this school: 43.6%)
- **San Jose High** — 0.4 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Anne Darling Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 34.7% (this school: 43.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rocketship Discovery Prep** — 0.3 mi away, 31.75% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Sunrise Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 27.95% (this school: 23.6%)
- **San Jose High** — 0.4 mi away, 27.85% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Anne Darling Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 25.95% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Grant Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 26.4% (this school: 23.6%)

### math proficiency
- **KIPP San Jose Collegiate** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Muwekma Ohlone Middle** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center** — 1.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Vinci Park Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Walter L. Bachrodt Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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

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