# Jefferson Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/jefferson-elementary-paramount

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062985008516`
- **School name**: Jefferson Elementary
- **Location**: Paramount, CA 90723
- **Address**: 8600 Jefferson St.
- **District**: Paramount Unified (LEAID `0629850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.89260, -118.14880
- **Phone**: (562)602-8024

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 356
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.3% proficient — 154 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.2% (82 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.7% (40 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (2 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**: 92.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.4% — 82 students
- **English Learners**: 32.7% — 110 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,687
- **Federal share**: $1,775
- **State + local share**: $20,912
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 336
### 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**: $87,247
- **Poverty rate**: 12.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,609
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.0 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 151
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.53 miles (OAK STREET PROPERTY)

### 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**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Alondra Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 20.8% (this school: 23.2%)
- **Paramount Virtual Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 16.7% (this school: 23.2%)
- **Albert Baxter Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 23% (this school: 23.2%)
- **Paramount High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 23.2%)
- **Harry Wirtz Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 16.5% (this school: 23.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Paramount Virtual Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 61.85% (this school: 43.3%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 44.8% (this school: 43.3%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 57.35% (this school: 43.3%)
- **Bellflower High** — 2.0 mi away, 49.25% (this school: 43.3%)
- **Las Flores Home Education Independent Study Academy** — 2.0 mi away, 53.05% (this school: 43.3%)

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