# James A. Whitaker Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060636000560`
- **School name**: James A. Whitaker Elementary
- **Location**: Buena Park, CA 90621
- **Address**: 8401 Montana St.
- **District**: Buena Park Elementary (LEAID `0606360`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.86230, -117.98630
- **Phone**: (714)521-9770

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 559
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 32.4% proficient — 247 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.8% (159 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.1% (74 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (16 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 82.4%
- **Black/African American**: 8.2%
- **Asian**: 3.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 88.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.7% — 85 students
- **English Learners**: 35.4% — 205 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,392
- **Federal share**: $1,926
- **State + local share**: $19,466
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 579
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,543,213
- **Federal share**: 11.3%
- **State share**: 51.5%
- **Local share**: 37.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,070,984

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $98,153
- **Poverty rate**: 13.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,020
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 146
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.94 miles (ROSS PARK EXPANSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF BUENA PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Buena Park High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.87% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Mabel L. Pendleton Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 22.2% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Valencia Park Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 17.4% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 14.8% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Carl E. Gilbert Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 24.5% (this school: 25.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Buena Park High** — 0.5 mi away, 48.5% (this school: 26.2%)
- **Mabel L. Pendleton Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 28.55% (this school: 26.2%)
- **Valencia Park Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 27.3% (this school: 26.2%)
- **Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 50.9% (this school: 26.2%)
- **Carl E. Gilbert Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 26.3% (this school: 26.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Buena Park High** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mabel L. Pendleton Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Valencia Park Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Gordon H. Beatty Middle** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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