# Sierra Preparatory Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-preparatory-academy-santa-ana

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063531006007`
- **School name**: Sierra Preparatory Academy
- **Location**: Santa Ana, CA 92705
- **Address**: 2021 North Grand Ave.
- **District**: Santa Ana Unified (LEAID `0635310`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.76242, -117.85066
- **Phone**: (714)567-3500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 697
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 28.8% proficient — 581 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 26.6% (225 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.3% (44 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.6% (28 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**: 85.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.0% — 171 students
- **English Learners**: 38.0% — 295 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 82 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 31 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,065
- **Federal share**: $968
- **State + local share**: $24,097
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 776
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,234,756
- **Federal share**: 19.3%
- **State share**: 54.7%
- **Local share**: 26.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,642,452

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $113,276
- **Poverty rate**: 15.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,391
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.9 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 196
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.13 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA ANA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2021-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Citrus Springs Charter** — 0.2 mi away, 6.7% (this school: 26.6%)
- **Ednovate - Legacy College Prep.** — 0.3 mi away, 0.71% (this school: 26.6%)
- **John Muir Fundamental Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 12.6% (this school: 26.6%)
- **Advanced Learning Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 13.2% (this school: 26.6%)
- **Fairhaven Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 25.1% (this school: 26.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Citrus Springs Charter** — 0.2 mi away, 56.15% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Ednovate - Legacy College Prep.** — 0.3 mi away, 37.35% (this school: 24.4%)
- **John Muir Fundamental Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 47.1% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Advanced Learning Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 33.25% (this school: 24.4%)
- **Fairhaven Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 29.45% (this school: 24.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Citrus Springs Charter** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **John Muir Fundamental Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Fairhaven Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **OCSA** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Roosevelt Walker Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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