# John J. Pershing Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062334011926`
- **School name**: John J. Pershing Elementary
- **Location**: Madera, CA 93638
- **Address**: 1505 E. Ellis St.
- **District**: Madera Unified (LEAID `0623340`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 36.98725, -120.04678
- **Phone**: (559)664-9741
- **Website**: http://pershing.maderausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 788
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.7% proficient — 378 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 24.0% (200 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.1% (129 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (3 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**: 93.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.1% — 71 students
- **English Learners**: 31.9% — 249 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,609
- **Federal share**: $3,159
- **State + local share**: $16,450
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 781
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,820,133
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 70.9%
- **Local share**: 13.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,645,185

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,273
- **Poverty rate**: 26.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.0%
- **Unemployment**: 14.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,436
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.5 miles (INDUSTRIAL WASTE PROCESSING)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.08 miles (ROAD 28 PROPOSED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MADERA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-07-06

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.11189 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **James Monroe Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 23% (this school: 24%)
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 1.3% (this school: 24%)
- **Mountain Vista High** — 1.1 mi away, 3.05% (this school: 24%)
- **Liberty Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 9.8% (this school: 24%)
- **Sherman Thomas Charter High** — 1.3 mi away, 2.82% (this school: 24%)

### ela proficiency
- **James Monroe Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 41.5% (this school: 38.35%)
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 38.35%)
- **Sherman Thomas Charter High** — 1.3 mi away, 51.7% (this school: 38.35%)
- **Matilda Torres High** — 1.5 mi away, 57.7% (this school: 38.35%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 39.5% (this school: 38.35%)

### math proficiency
- **Sherman Thomas STEM Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Berenda Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Parkwood Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ranchos Middle** — 8.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Herndon-Barstow Elementary** — 13.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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