# Harry Wirtz Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062985009986`
- **School name**: Harry Wirtz Elementary
- **Location**: Paramount, CA 90723
- **Address**: 8535 Contreras St.
- **District**: Paramount Unified (LEAID `0629850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.90190, -118.15080
- **Phone**: (562)602-8068

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 421
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.1% proficient — 212 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.5% (74 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.5% (70 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (4 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**: 94.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 40.7% — 176 students
- **English Learners**: 42.8% — 185 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,849
- **Federal share**: $1,647
- **State + local share**: $21,202
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 432
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,464,286
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 67.2%
- **Local share**: 17.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,102,128

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,700
- **Poverty rate**: 5.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,593
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 169
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.12 miles (SOUTH GATE FORMER RANCHO MARKET SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PARAMOUNT - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Paramount High** — 0.1 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 16.5%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 14.8% (this school: 16.5%)
- **Somerset High** — 1.6 mi away, 3.54% (this school: 16.5%)
- **Manuel Dominguez High** — 1.9 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 16.5%)
- **Cesar Chavez Continuation High** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Paramount High** — 0.1 mi away, 32% (this school: 29.05%)
- **Paramount Park Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 32.1% (this school: 29.05%)
- **Paramount Virtual Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 61.85% (this school: 29.05%)
- **Jefferson Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 43.3% (this school: 29.05%)
- **Albert Baxter Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 31.8% (this school: 29.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Paramount Virtual Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Abraham Lincoln** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ward (E. W.) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Alondra Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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