# Discovery

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062088012829`
- **School name**: Discovery
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93535
- **Address**: 44910 17th St. East
- **District**: Lancaster Elementary (LEAID `0620880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.69926, -118.09840
- **Phone**: (661)949-3175
- **Website**: https://www.discoveryrockets.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 662
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.4% proficient — 325 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 33.1% (252 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.7% (144 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (19 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**: 89.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.2% — 85 students
- **English Learners**: 17.4% — 122 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,485
- **Federal share**: $2,783
- **State + local share**: $17,702
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 699
### 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**: $71,250
- **Poverty rate**: 25.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,335
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.1 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 34.15 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**: 4.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Linda Verde Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 22.2% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Desert Winds Continuation High** — 1.4 mi away, 2.25% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Antelope Valley High** — 1.8 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Phoenix High Community Day** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 2.0 mi away, 9.5% (this school: 33.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Tierra Bonita Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 56.7% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 2.0 mi away, 61.4% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 47.1% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Desert Sands Charter** — 3.9 mi away, 40.35% (this school: 38.2%)
- **John and Jacquelyn Miller Elementary** — 4.5 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 38.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Tierra Bonita Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 5.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 7.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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