# Richard Henry Dana Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060744000699`
- **School name**: Richard Henry Dana Elementary
- **Location**: Dana Point, CA 92629
- **Address**: 24242 La Cresta Dr.
- **District**: Capistrano Unified (LEAID `0607440`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.46851, -117.70759
- **Phone**: (949)496-5784
- **Website**: https://rhdana.capousd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 461
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.8% proficient — 131 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.8% (75 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 29.1% (66 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 68.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 23.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 44.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.5% — 25 students
- **English Learners**: 27.3% — 105 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,626
- **Federal share**: $1,630
- **State + local share**: $17,996
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 384
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,513,098
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 31.0%
- **Local share**: 61.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,388,782

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $133,281
- **Poverty rate**: 4.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 62.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,766
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.4 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 20.04 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALPINE OAKS ESTATES LLC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Dana Hills High** — 0.8 mi away, 2.94% (this school: 18.8%)
- **John Malcom Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 14% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Marco Forster Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 18.1% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Capistrano Home/Virtual** — 2.3 mi away, 4.7% (this school: 18.8%)
- **California Preparatory Academy** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Dana Hills High** — 0.8 mi away, 73.95% (this school: 57.4%)
- **John Malcom Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 63.65% (this school: 57.4%)
- **Del Obispo Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 57.75% (this school: 57.4%)
- **Marco Forster Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 63.9% (this school: 57.4%)
- **California Preparatory Academy** — 2.3 mi away, 65.75% (this school: 57.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Hidden Hills Elementary** — 4.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **California Republic Leadership Academy Capistrano** — 4.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Moulton Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Truman Benedict Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Bernice Ayer Middle** — 4.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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