# Pierce Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063680006239`
- **School name**: Pierce Elementary
- **Location**: Ridgecrest, CA 93555
- **Address**: 674 North Gold Canyon
- **District**: Sierra Sands Unified (LEAID `0636800`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 35.63002, -117.65776
- **Phone**: (760)499-1670
- **Website**: https://pierceacademyofthearts.ssusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 297
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 31.0% proficient — 148 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 33.0% (119 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.4% (101 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.1% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.5% (11 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**: 81.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.6% — 56 students
- **English Learners**: 10.4% — 33 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,695
- **Federal share**: $1,748
- **State + local share**: $15,947
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 318
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,860,588
- **Federal share**: 13.6%
- **State share**: 69.4%
- **Local share**: 17.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,463,725

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,714
- **Poverty rate**: 22.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.5%
- **Unemployment**: 14.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,131
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 48.7 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 51.92 miles (PPG INDUSTRIES BARTLETT PLANT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: INDIAN WELLS VALLEY W.D.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.16849 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Burroughs High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 33%)
- **Murray Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 24.5% (this school: 33%)
- **Richmond Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 29.8% (this school: 33%)
- **Mesquite Continuation High** — 1.0 mi away, 1.94% (this school: 33%)
- **Gateway Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 27.9% (this school: 33%)

### ela proficiency
- **Burroughs High** — 0.4 mi away, 54.3% (this school: 25.5%)
- **Murray Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 38.75% (this school: 25.5%)
- **Richmond Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 49.55% (this school: 25.5%)
- **Gateway Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 49% (this school: 25.5%)
- **James Monroe Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 38.6% (this school: 25.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Richmond Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Gateway Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Faller Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Inyokern Elementary** — 8.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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