# Sundown Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sundown-elementary-lancaster/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064212003262`
- **School name**: Sundown Elementary
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93536
- **Address**: 6151 West Ave. J-8
- **District**: Westside Union Elementary (LEAID `0642120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.68268, -118.24043
- **Phone**: (661)722-3026

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 941
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.9% proficient — 485 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 28.3% (272 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.5% (139 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.6% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.8% (34 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**: 59.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.4% — 119 students
- **English Learners**: 6.0% — 53 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 47 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 34 students
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,141
- **Federal share**: $1,101
- **State + local share**: $13,040
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 889
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,011,678
- **Federal share**: 7.1%
- **State share**: 65.5%
- **Local share**: 27.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,904,110

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $109,459
- **Poverty rate**: 10.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.9%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,137
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.3 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 29.48 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAND PROJECTS MUTUAL WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 108
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Academies of the Antelope Valley** — 1.7 mi away, 12.8% (this school: 28.3%)
- **Quartz Hill High** — 1.7 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 28.3%)
- **Joe Walker Middle** — 2.2 mi away, 22.3% (this school: 28.3%)
- **West Wind Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 27% (this school: 28.3%)
- **Lancaster High** — 3.0 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 28.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Academies of the Antelope Valley** — 1.7 mi away, 48.4% (this school: 36.95%)
- **Quartz Hill High** — 1.7 mi away, 50.65% (this school: 36.95%)
- **Joe Walker Middle** — 2.2 mi away, 41.45% (this school: 36.95%)
- **West Wind Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 39.7% (this school: 36.95%)
- **Nancy Cory Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 37.9% (this school: 36.95%)

### math proficiency
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 3.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 4.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho Vista Elementary** — 4.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 5.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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