# Sunnydale Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062088002514`
- **School name**: Sunnydale Elementary
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93534
- **Address**: 1233 West Avenue J-8
- **District**: Lancaster Elementary (LEAID `0620880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.68294, -118.15322
- **Phone**: (661)948-2636
- **Website**: https://www.sunnydaleschool.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 469
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.6% proficient — 225 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 35.3% (202 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.8% (162 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.8% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.7% (44 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**: 91.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.2% — 102 students
- **English Learners**: 13.5% — 68 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 41 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,156
- **Federal share**: $2,841
- **State + local share**: $19,315
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 504
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,511,305
- **Federal share**: 19.3%
- **State share**: 64.4%
- **Local share**: 16.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,846,020

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,688
- **Poverty rate**: 18.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.9%
- **Unemployment**: 8.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,505
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.9 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 31.58 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**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies** — 0.1 mi away, 3.7% (this school: 35.3%)
- **Empower Generations** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 35.3%)
- **The Leadership Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 23.5% (this school: 35.3%)
- **Desert Sands Charter** — 0.6 mi away, 5.94% (this school: 35.3%)
- **Life Source International Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 32.2% (this school: 35.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Lancaster Alternative and Virtual Academies** — 0.1 mi away, 37.15% (this school: 36.8%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 47.1% (this school: 36.8%)
- **Desert Sands Charter** — 0.6 mi away, 40.35% (this school: 36.8%)
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 36.8%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 2.0 mi away, 75.65% (this school: 36.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Sierra Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 2.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Tierra Bonita Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 4.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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