# Howard Pence Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/howard-pence-elementary-san-diego

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063738006324`
- **School name**: Howard Pence Elementary
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92154
- **Address**: 877 Via Tonga Ct.
- **District**: South Bay Union (LEAID `0637380`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.57847, -117.06179
- **Phone**: (619)662-8100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 419
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 30.9% proficient — 269 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.6% (109 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (15 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**: 65.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 65.4% — 302 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,480
- **Federal share**: $2,362
- **State + local share**: $17,118
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 462
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,016,833
- **Federal share**: 16.9%
- **State share**: 55.4%
- **Local share**: 27.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,048,701

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,000
- **Poverty rate**: 12.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.7%
- **Unemployment**: 11.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,751
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 52.9 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.81 miles (DAVIES PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.5048 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Montgomery Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 19.5% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Montgomery Senior High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Silver Wing Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Los Altos Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 21.7% (this school: 22.6%)
- **Southwest Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 21.6% (this school: 22.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Montgomery Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 40.6% (this school: 25.45%)
- **Montgomery Senior High** — 0.5 mi away, 60.1% (this school: 25.45%)
- **Silver Wing Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 43.1% (this school: 25.45%)
- **Los Altos Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 37.7% (this school: 25.45%)
- **Finney (Myrtle S.) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 31.75% (this school: 25.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Montgomery Senior High** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Juarez-Lincoln Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Otay Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Nestor Language Academy Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Montgomery (John J.) Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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