# Carmela Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063756007143`
- **School name**: Carmela Elementary
- **Location**: Whittier, CA 90605
- **Address**: 13300 Lakeland Rd.
- **District**: South Whittier Elementary (LEAID `0637560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.93130, -118.04840
- **Phone**: (562)941-2132
- **Website**: https://carmela.swhittier.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 317
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.0% proficient — 176 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.3% (84 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.6% (61 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.6% (12 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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.6% — 76 students
- **English Learners**: 42.7% — 144 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,835
- **Federal share**: $3,592
- **State + local share**: $18,243
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 337
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,369,369
- **Federal share**: 14.8%
- **State share**: 59.9%
- **Local share**: 25.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,030,030

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,278
- **Poverty rate**: 10.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.6%
- **Unemployment**: 10.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,433
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (WASTE DISPOSAL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 15
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 177
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.69 miles (LOS ANGELES CADA CENTERS FOR ALCOHOL DRUG ABU)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHITTIER-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Loma Vista Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 12.1% (this school: 23.3%)
- **Howard J. McKibben Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 21% (this school: 23.3%)
- **Lake Marie Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 15.3% (this school: 23.3%)
- **Ceres Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 13.1% (this school: 23.3%)
- **Mulberry Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 10.6% (this school: 23.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Loma Vista Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 42.9% (this school: 27.5%)
- **Howard J. McKibben Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 47.8% (this school: 27.5%)
- **Lake Marie Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 30.3% (this school: 27.5%)
- **Richard L. Graves Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 29.05% (this school: 27.5%)
- **Ceres Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 44.5% (this school: 27.5%)

### math proficiency
- **La Colima Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Gardenhill Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Lake Center Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Arlie F. Hutchinson Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Santa Fe High** — 2.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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