# John A. Otis Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-a-otis-elementary-national-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062667004049`
- **School name**: John A. Otis Elementary
- **Location**: National City, CA 91950
- **Address**: 621 East 18th St.
- **District**: National Elementary (LEAID `0626670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.66945, -117.09669
- **Phone**: (619)336-8800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 367
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 33.1% proficient — 224 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.2% (110 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.1% (121 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.3% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.8% (27 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**: 78.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 41 students
- **English Learners**: 61.3% — 245 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,955
- **Federal share**: $3,346
- **State + local share**: $20,609
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 400
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,155,771
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 64.8%
- **Local share**: 20.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,301,172

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $56,045
- **Poverty rate**: 13.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.6%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,568
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 46.2 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 27
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.42 miles (SITE NO 307B)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.9444 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **National City Middle** — 0.2 mi away, 16.2% (this school: 25.2%)
- **Sweetwater High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.91% (this school: 25.2%)
- **Granger Junior High** — 1.4 mi away, 23.4% (this school: 25.2%)
- **San Diego Workforce Innovation High** — 1.5 mi away, 5.42% (this school: 25.2%)
- **Ira Harbison** — 1.8 mi away, 16.2% (this school: 25.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **National City Middle** — 0.2 mi away, 39.3% (this school: 26.55%)
- **Central Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 38.7% (this school: 26.55%)
- **Kimball** — 0.6 mi away, 30.5% (this school: 26.55%)
- **Sweetwater High** — 0.7 mi away, 41.55% (this school: 26.55%)
- **Integrity Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 28% (this school: 26.55%)

### math proficiency
- **National City Middle** — 0.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rancho de la Nacion** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Granger Junior High** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Feaster (Mae L.) Charter** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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