# Ocotillo Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958004572`
- **School name**: Ocotillo Elementary
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93551
- **Address**: 38737 Ocotillo School Dr.
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.58550, -118.15470
- **Phone**: (661)947-9987
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/oc

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 588
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 28.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.5% proficient — 282 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 27.2% (182 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.9% (145 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.5% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (20 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**: 80.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 43.0% — 263 students
- **English Learners**: 14.9% — 91 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 97 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 28 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,156
- **Federal share**: $2,794
- **State + local share**: $16,362
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 611
### 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**: $87,393
- **Poverty rate**: 7.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.6%
- **Unemployment**: 8.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,246
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.6 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 25.85 miles (ONATE SITE)

### 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**: 9.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 0.6 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 27.2%)
- **Highland High** — 1.3 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 27.2%)
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 17.9% (this school: 27.2%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 1.6 mi away, 21.2% (this school: 27.2%)
- **R. Rex Parris High** — 2.0 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 27.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 0.6 mi away, 40.4% (this school: 38.75%)
- **Palmdale Discovery Center** — 0.6 mi away, 39.9% (this school: 38.75%)
- **Highland High** — 1.3 mi away, 41.7% (this school: 38.75%)
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 55.4% (this school: 38.75%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 1.6 mi away, 56.4% (this school: 38.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 4.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 5.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 5.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 6.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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