# Joe Nightingale Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/joe-nightingale-elementary-santa-maria/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/joe-nightingale-elementary-santa-maria

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062871004464`
- **School name**: Joe Nightingale Elementary
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93455
- **Address**: 255 Winter Rd.
- **District**: Orcutt Union Elementary (LEAID `0628710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.89910, -120.43370
- **Phone**: (805)938-8650

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 695
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 66.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.9% proficient — 374 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 8.6% (61 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.4% (45 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 52.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.6% — 100 students
- **English Learners**: 11.7% — 80 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,501
- **Federal share**: $1,047
- **State + local share**: $9,454
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 684
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,853,930
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 55.5%
- **Local share**: 37.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,028,794

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,472
- **Poverty rate**: 3.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.2%
- **Unemployment**: 1.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,819
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.7 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.73 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA MARIA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 8.6%)
- **Jimenez Roberto and Dr. Francisco Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 8.6%)
- **Trivium Charter** — 2.4 mi away, 4.7% (this school: 8.6%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 2.5 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 8.6%)
- **Adam (William Laird) Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 6.7% (this school: 8.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 2.6 mi away, 69.25% (this school: 67.45%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 10.8 mi away, 81.8% (this school: 67.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 10.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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