# Harding Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/harding-elementary-el-cerrito/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/harding-elementary-el-cerrito

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063255005033`
- **School name**: Harding Elementary
- **Location**: El Cerrito, CA 94530
- **Address**: 7230 Fairmont Ave.
- **District**: West Contra Costa Unified (LEAID `0632550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.90282, -122.29440
- **Phone**: (510)231-1413

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 481
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.3%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 53.7% proficient — 253 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.5% (71 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (16 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 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**: 29.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.4% — 40 students
- **English Learners**: 14.1% — 67 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $5,339
- **Federal share**: $1,461
- **State + local share**: $3,878
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 474
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,299,787
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 46.9%
- **Local share**: 42.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,509,805

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $100,192
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 62.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,256
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 60
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.28 miles (EL CERRITO PLAZA BART)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.7826 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **El Cerrito High** — 0.3 mi away, 0.95% (this school: 14.5%)
- **Albany Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 14.5%)
- **Albany High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.18% (this school: 14.5%)
- **MacGregor High (Continuation)** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 14.5%)
- **Cornell Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 6% (this school: 14.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **El Cerrito High** — 0.3 mi away, 65.4% (this school: 53.7%)
- **Albany Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 71.75% (this school: 53.7%)
- **Albany High** — 0.5 mi away, 76.85% (this school: 53.7%)
- **Fairmont Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 64.95% (this school: 53.7%)
- **Cornell Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 73% (this school: 53.7%)

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