# McDowell Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063023004719`
- **School name**: McDowell Elementary
- **Location**: Petaluma, CA 94954
- **Address**: 421 South McDowell Blvd.
- **District**: Petaluma City Elementary (LEAID `0630230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 38.24686, -122.61985
- **Phone**: (707)778-4745

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 329
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 30.9% proficient — 142 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 26.9% (85 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.3% (12 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 85.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.2% — 45 students
- **English Learners**: 53.4% — 158 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,320
- **Federal share**: $2,329
- **State + local share**: $16,991
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 296
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $84,750
- **Poverty rate**: 7.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,425
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.3 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.82 miles (THE MILLER PROPERTY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 3.44393 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **La Tercera Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 14.5% (this school: 26.9%)
- **Live Oak Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 12.9% (this school: 26.9%)
- **Loma Vista Immersion Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 14.7% (this school: 26.9%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 26.9%)
- **Petaluma Accelerated Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 8.5% (this school: 26.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **La Tercera Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 41.45% (this school: 34.45%)
- **Live Oak Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 54% (this school: 34.45%)
- **Loma Vista Immersion Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 46.55% (this school: 34.45%)
- **Petaluma Accelerated Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 78.1% (this school: 34.45%)
- **Miwok Valley Elementary Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 37% (this school: 34.45%)

### math proficiency
- **La Tercera Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Live Oak Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Loma Vista Immersion Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Petaluma Accelerated Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Casa Grande High** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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