# Knob Hill Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/knob-hill-elementary-san-marcos

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063488009439`
- **School name**: Knob Hill Elementary
- **Location**: San Marcos, CA 92069
- **Address**: 1825 Knob Hill Rd.
- **District**: San Marcos Unified (LEAID `0634880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.13910, -117.12070
- **Phone**: (760)290-2080
- **Website**: https://www.smusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 725
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 38.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.4% proficient — 353 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.1% (98 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.9% (77 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 35.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.9% — 159 students
- **English Learners**: 13.5% — 98 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 35 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,488
- **Federal share**: $1,306
- **State + local share**: $15,182
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 726
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,635,052
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 52.8%
- **Local share**: 36.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,240,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,080
- **Poverty rate**: 13.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.3%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,354
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.2 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 25
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.68 miles (256 W MISSION ROAD CITY OF SAN MARCOS CA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VALLECITOS WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.78877 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Community Montessori** — 0.8 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 13.1%)
- **Dimensions Collaborative** — 0.8 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 13.1%)
- **Mission Hills High** — 1.4 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 13.1%)
- **Richland Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 10% (this school: 13.1%)
- **Escondido High** — 1.8 mi away, 1.58% (this school: 13.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Richland Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 69.15% (this school: 68.2%)
- **Double Peak** — 3.5 mi away, 70.75% (this school: 68.2%)
- **Escondido Charter High** — 3.8 mi away, 72.6% (this school: 68.2%)
- **Paloma Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 71.6% (this school: 68.2%)
- **High Tech High North County** — 4.7 mi away, 74.75% (this school: 68.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Richland Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Double Peak** — 3.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Paloma Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Bernardo Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **San Elijo Elementary** — 5.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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