# Heron

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/heron-sacramento/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/heron-sacramento

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060003611734`
- **School name**: Heron
- **Location**: Sacramento, CA 95835
- **Address**: 5151 Banfield Dr.
- **District**: Natomas Unified (LEAID `0600036`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 38.66788, -121.51148
- **Phone**: (916)567-5680
- **Website**: https://hes.natomasunified.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 977
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 53.0% proficient — 653 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.6% (159 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.1% (60 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 26.0%
- **Black/African American**: 21.8%
- **Asian**: 11.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 25.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 14.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 28.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.9% — 156 students
- **English Learners**: 5.2% — 54 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 47 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 40 students
- **Autism**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,249
- **Federal share**: $1,680
- **State + local share**: $13,569
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,045
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,407,410
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 60.5%
- **Local share**: 30.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,501,937

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $122,879
- **Poverty rate**: 1.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,287
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.1 miles (MCCLELLAN AIR FORCE BASE GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.71 miles (RIO LINDA SUPER BLOCK SITE 1)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83784 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Inderkum High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.49% (this school: 14.6%)
- **Natomas Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 3.7% (this school: 14.6%)
- **Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 14.6%)
- **Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 3.3% (this school: 14.6%)
- **Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 1.8% (this school: 14.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Westlake Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 60.3% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Natomas Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 69% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep** — 2.1 mi away, 76% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 62.4% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 69.75% (this school: 59.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Hazel Strauch Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Miwok Middle** — 7.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **David Lubin Elementary** — 7.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Caleb Greenwood Elementary** — 7.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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