# Tumbleweed Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958004577`
- **School name**: Tumbleweed Elementary
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93550
- **Address**: 1100 East Avenue R-4
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.56870, -118.10940
- **Phone**: (661)273-4166
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/tw

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 502
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.8% proficient — 264 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 34.4% (230 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 40.5% (269 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (14 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**: 95.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.2% — 70 students
- **English Learners**: 29.8% — 186 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,180
- **Federal share**: $2,722
- **State + local share**: $15,458
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 624
### 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**: $70,938
- **Poverty rate**: 8.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.2%
- **Unemployment**: 9.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,149
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.6 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 26.54 miles (RILEY 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**: 11.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Palm Tree Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 31.8% (this school: 34.4%)
- **Palmdale High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 34.4%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 1.3 mi away, 21.2% (this school: 34.4%)
- **R. Rex Parris High** — 1.5 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 34.4%)
- **Cactus Medical Health and Technology Magnet Academy** — 2.2 mi away, 33% (this school: 34.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palm Tree Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 30.2% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 1.3 mi away, 56.4% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 2.4 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Manzanita Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 29.3% (this school: 28.9%)
- **Palmdale Academy Charter** — 2.8 mi away, 37.25% (this school: 28.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 2.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 3.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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