# Shaffer Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060342000261`
- **School name**: Shaffer Elementary
- **Location**: Atwater, CA 95301
- **Address**: 1434 California St.
- **District**: Atwater Elementary (LEAID `0603420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.34640, -120.59800
- **Phone**: (209)357-6145
- **Website**: https://www.aesd.edu

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 405
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.4% proficient — 226 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.0% (53 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.3% (144 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (6 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 69.5%
- **Black/African American**: 7.5%
- **Asian**: 3.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 16.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 60 students
- **English Learners**: 32.9% — 139 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,876
- **Federal share**: $3,128
- **State + local share**: $15,748
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 422
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,223,527
- **Federal share**: 12.3%
- **State share**: 79.1%
- **Local share**: 8.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,853,111

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $55,922
- **Poverty rate**: 26.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,285
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 30.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.43 miles (REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MERCED BROWNFIELD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ATWATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 0.7 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 12%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 10.7% (this school: 12%)
- **Bellevue Senior Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 10.7% (this school: 12%)
- **Aileen Colburn Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 9.9% (this school: 12%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 1.3 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 12%)

### ela proficiency
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 57% (this school: 38.7%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 0.7 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 38.7%)
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 38.7%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 46.8% (this school: 38.7%)
- **Aileen Colburn Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 40.3% (this school: 38.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Peggy Heller Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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