# Buena Vista Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/buena-vista-elementary-carlsbad

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060750000708`
- **School name**: Buena Vista Elementary
- **Location**: Carlsbad, CA 92008
- **Address**: 1330 Buena Vista Way
- **District**: Carlsbad Unified (LEAID `0607500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.16980, -117.34260
- **Phone**: (760)331-5400
- **Website**: https://bves.carlsbadusd.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 281
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.9%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 59.1% proficient — 142 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.9% (46 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.1% (72 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (2 students) [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)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.3%
- **Black/African American**: 3.7%
- **Asian**: 1.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 47.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 26.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 36.1% — 104 students
- **English Learners**: 6.6% — 19 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,243
- **Federal share**: $1,524
- **State + local share**: $19,719
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 288
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,796,772
- **Federal share**: 5.8%
- **State share**: 14.0%
- **Local share**: 80.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,820,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $115,711
- **Poverty rate**: 7.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 58.5%
- **Unemployment**: 13.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,379
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.5 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.14 miles (APN 175 131 22)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.67632 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Carlsbad High** — 0.9 mi away, 0.13% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Carlsbad Village Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Carlsbad Seaside Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 5.3% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Magnolia Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 7.9% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Surfside High (Continuation)** — 1.8 mi away, 2.52% (this school: 14.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Carlsbad High** — 0.9 mi away, 64.05% (this school: 59.1%)
- **Valley Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 60.05% (this school: 59.1%)
- **Magnolia Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 68.1% (this school: 59.1%)
- **Hope Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 64.25% (this school: 59.1%)
- **Kelly Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 71.75% (this school: 59.1%)

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