# Steve Luther Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/steve-luther-elementary-la-palma

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061044001170`
- **School name**: Steve Luther Elementary
- **Location**: La Palma, CA 90623
- **Address**: 4631 La Palma Ave.
- **District**: Cypress Elementary (LEAID `0610440`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.84685, -118.05131
- **Phone**: (714)220-6918
- **Website**: https://lu.cypsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 403
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 52.6% proficient — 197 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.2% (54 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.0% (44 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.9% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (7 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 41.6%
- **Black/African American**: 29.5%
- **Asian**: 2.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 17.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 53.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 27.4% — 106 students
- **English Learners**: 15.3% — 59 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,827
- **Federal share**: $951
- **State + local share**: $23,876
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 387
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,268,893
- **Federal share**: 8.4%
- **State share**: 33.7%
- **Local share**: 57.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,692,150

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $115,577
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.0%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,917
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.7 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 117
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.98 miles (LOS ALAMITOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF LA PALMA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Los Coyotes Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 4.1% (this school: 13.2%)
- **Clara J. King Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 12.8% (this school: 13.2%)
- **John F. Kennedy High** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.2%)
- **Tetzlaff (Martin B.) Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 12.3% (this school: 13.2%)
- **Leal (Frank C.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 7.4% (this school: 13.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Los Coyotes Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 59.3%)
- **John F. Kennedy High** — 0.9 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 59.3%)
- **Tetzlaff (Martin B.) Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 62.9% (this school: 59.3%)
- **George B. Miller Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 61.5% (this school: 59.3%)
- **Carver (Charles J.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 69.8% (this school: 59.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Los Coyotes Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Carver (Charles J.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Oxford Academy** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Buena Terra Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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