# Lu Sutton Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lu-sutton-elementary-novato/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/lu-sutton-elementary-novato

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062772004188`
- **School name**: Lu Sutton Elementary
- **Location**: Novato, CA 94947
- **Address**: 1800 Center Rd.
- **District**: Novato Unified (LEAID `0627720`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 38.10550, -122.58549
- **Phone**: (415)897-3196
- **Website**: https://www.nusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 367
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.6:1

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.7% proficient — 155 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.6% (46 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.4% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (2 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**: 55.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.6% — 23 students
- **English Learners**: 39.3% — 137 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,732
- **Federal share**: $3,367
- **State + local share**: $24,365
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 349
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,144,454
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 43.5%
- **Local share**: 49.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,965,214

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,423
- **Poverty rate**: 10.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 44.9%
- **Unemployment**: 12.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,519
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.4 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.16 miles (THE MARTIN PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NORTH MARIN WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.06124 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Marin Oaks High** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.6%)
- **Nova Education Center** — 0.7 mi away, 11.1% (this school: 12.6%)
- **Rancho Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 4% (this school: 12.6%)
- **Novato High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.22% (this school: 12.6%)
- **San Ramon Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 3.1% (this school: 12.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **San Ramon Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 69.2% (this school: 61.85%)
- **Pleasant Valley Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 61.85%)
- **San Marin High** — 1.6 mi away, 62.45% (this school: 61.85%)
- **Lucas Valley Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 69.8% (this school: 61.85%)
- **Miller Creek Middle** — 5.6 mi away, 67.7% (this school: 61.85%)

### math proficiency
- **Lynwood Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Lucas Valley Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Vallecito Elementary** — 7.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Terra Linda High** — 7.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Ross Valley Charter** — 8.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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