# Ernest O. Lawrence Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061488001857`
- **School name**: Ernest O. Lawrence Elementary
- **Location**: Garden Grove, CA 92841
- **Address**: 12521 Monroe
- **District**: Garden Grove Unified (LEAID `0614880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.78070, -117.98689
- **Phone**: (714)663-6255
- **Website**: http://lawrence.ggusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 447
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.2% proficient — 225 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.5% (94 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.1% (76 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 63.2%
- **Black/African American**: 30.0%
- **Asian**: 1.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.2% — 85 students
- **English Learners**: 47.0% — 219 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,076
- **Federal share**: $3,288
- **State + local share**: $19,788
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 466
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,636,255
- **Federal share**: 12.9%
- **State share**: 56.8%
- **Local share**: 30.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,538,200

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,083
- **Poverty rate**: 6.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,830
- **Foreign-born residents**: 42.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.1 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 77
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.14 miles (GARDEN GROVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF GARDEN GROVE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Alamitos Intermediate** — 0.2 mi away, 15.7% (this school: 19.5%)
- **Stanford Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 13.1% (this school: 19.5%)
- **Louis G. Zeyen Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 15.1% (this school: 19.5%)
- **Wakeham Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 14.3% (this school: 19.5%)
- **Marie L. Hare High** — 0.8 mi away, 3.86% (this school: 19.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Alamitos Intermediate** — 0.2 mi away, 43.55% (this school: 40.1%)
- **Stanford Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 46.15% (this school: 40.1%)
- **Louis G. Zeyen Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 45.7% (this school: 40.1%)
- **Rancho Alamitos High** — 1.3 mi away, 47.55% (this school: 40.1%)
- **Fryberger Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 58.7% (this school: 40.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Alamitos Intermediate** — 0.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Fryberger Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Brookhurst Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Patton Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Warner Middle** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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