# Branch Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/branch-elementary-arroyo-grande

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062308003517`
- **School name**: Branch Elementary
- **Location**: Arroyo Grande, CA 93420
- **Address**: 970 School Rd.
- **District**: Lucia Mar Unified (LEAID `0623080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.14050, -120.52760
- **Phone**: (805)474-3720
- **Website**: https://branch.luciamarschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 261
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Blue
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Blue
  - ela: Blue
  - chronic_absent: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 65.2% proficient — 134 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.8% (15 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (4 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 33.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.3% — 16 students
- **English Learners**: 3.1% — 8 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,773
- **Federal share**: $1,395
- **State + local share**: $16,378
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 254
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,723,272
- **Federal share**: 10.9%
- **State share**: 30.7%
- **Local share**: 58.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,834,678

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $107,431
- **Poverty rate**: 9.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 52.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,127
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.2 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.38 miles (PISMO BEACH BELLO ST 1000)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ARROYO GRANDE UTILITIES DIVISION
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.51747 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arroyo Grande High** — 3.5 mi away, 1.21% (this school: 5.8%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 6.7 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 5.8%)
- **Nipomo High** — 6.7 mi away, 3.34% (this school: 5.8%)
- **PEEP - PREPARE** — 11.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.8%)
- **San Luis Obispo High** — 12.0 mi away, 1.76% (this school: 5.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 6.7 mi away, 81.8% (this school: 72.6%)
- **Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter** — 11.2 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 72.6%)
- **Teach Elementary** — 12.9 mi away, 76.55% (this school: 72.6%)

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