# Valencia Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062949004553`
- **School name**: Valencia Elementary
- **Location**: Aptos, CA 95003
- **Address**: 250 Aptos School Rd.
- **District**: Pajaro Valley Unified (LEAID `0629490`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 36.97720, -121.89519
- **Phone**: (831)728-7836

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 37.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.7% proficient — 272 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.8% (108 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence N/A (40 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (2 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**: 36.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.4% — 70 students
- **English Learners**: 10.3% — 50 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 36 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 487
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,285,950
- **Federal share**: 12.9%
- **State share**: 56.5%
- **Local share**: 30.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,654,812

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $127,589
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,858
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.0 miles (WATKINS JOHNSON CO STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.87 miles (POGONIP FARM AND GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CABRILLO COLLEGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.20139 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rio del Mar Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 18.3% (this school: 21.8%)
- **Delta Charter** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 21.8%)
- **Aptos High** — 1.8 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 21.8%)
- **New Brighton Middle** — 2.9 mi away, 20% (this school: 21.8%)
- **Main Street Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 15.5% (this school: 21.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Santa Cruz High** — 7.6 mi away, 73.05% (this school: 68.35%)
- **Brook Knoll Elementary** — 8.0 mi away, 71.25% (this school: 68.35%)
- **Vine Hill Elementary** — 8.5 mi away, 71.1% (this school: 68.35%)
- **Pacific Collegiate Charter** — 9.2 mi away, 75.4% (this school: 68.35%)
- **C. T. English Middle** — 10.6 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 68.35%)

### math proficiency
- **Santa Cruz High** — 7.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Brook Knoll Elementary** — 8.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Pacific Collegiate Charter** — 9.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **C. T. English Middle** — 10.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Loma Prieta Elementary** — 10.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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