# Mesquite Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958009608`
- **School name**: Mesquite Elementary
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93552
- **Address**: 37622 43rd St. East
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.56640, -118.05230
- **Phone**: (661)285-8376
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/mq

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 582
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.6% proficient — 297 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 35.1% (235 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.9% (123 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (11 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**: 85.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.8% — 73 students
- **English Learners**: 31.7% — 196 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,388
- **Federal share**: $2,703
- **State + local share**: $14,685
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 618
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,574,168
- **Federal share**: 18.4%
- **State share**: 70.2%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,260,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $74,408
- **Poverty rate**: 22.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.4%
- **Unemployment**: 12.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,250
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.1 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 27.17 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Innovations Academy of Palmdale** — 0.7 mi away, 24.8% (this school: 35.1%)
- **Antelope Valley Learning Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 7.4% (this school: 35.1%)
- **Cimarron Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 32% (this school: 35.1%)
- **Cactus Medical Health and Technology Magnet Academy** — 1.0 mi away, 33% (this school: 35.1%)
- **Manzanita Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 30.3% (this school: 35.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palmdale Academy Charter** — 0.6 mi away, 37.25% (this school: 36.3%)
- **Antelope Valley Learning Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 37.4% (this school: 36.3%)
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 36.3%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 55.95% (this school: 36.3%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 2.4 mi away, 57.4% (this school: 36.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Quail Valley Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 2.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 4.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 6.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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