# Joshua Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062088002507`
- **School name**: Joshua Elementary
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93535
- **Address**: 43926 North Second St. East
- **District**: Lancaster Elementary (LEAID `0620880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.68084, -118.12760
- **Phone**: (661)948-0743
- **Website**: https://www.joshuaelementary.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 688
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 21.8% proficient — 231 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 47.5% (305 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.4% (132 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.8% (33 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**: 93.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 79 students
- **English Learners**: 12.2% — 70 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,856
- **Federal share**: $2,888
- **State + local share**: $17,968
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 574
### 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**: $81,765
- **Poverty rate**: 9.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.1%
- **Unemployment**: 10.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,019
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.1 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 32.19 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**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **iLEAD Lancaster Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 42.9% (this school: 47.5%)
- **El Dorado Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 44.3% (this school: 47.5%)
- **Life Source International Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 32.2% (this school: 47.5%)
- **New Vista Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 46.3% (this school: 47.5%)
- **Assurance Learning Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 4.02% (this school: 47.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **iLEAD Lancaster Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 34.3% (this school: 20.9%)
- **El Dorado Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 32.9% (this school: 20.9%)
- **Life Source International Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 28% (this school: 20.9%)
- **New Vista Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 22.2% (this school: 20.9%)
- **Assurance Learning Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 25.75% (this school: 20.9%)

### math proficiency
- **iLEAD Lancaster Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **El Dorado Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Jack Northrop Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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