# Ada S. Nelson Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ada-s-nelson-elementary-whittier

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062289003501`
- **School name**: Ada S. Nelson Elementary
- **Location**: Whittier, CA 90606
- **Address**: 8140 South Vicki Dr.
- **District**: Los Nietos (LEAID `0622890`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.96984, -118.07566
- **Phone**: (562)692-0615
- **Website**: http://losnietosaes.losnietos.k12.ca.us/index.jsp

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 358
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 51.9% proficient — 190 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.8% (65 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.7% (73 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.0% (15 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**: 72.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 49 students
- **English Learners**: 23.0% — 87 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,646
- **Federal share**: $2,616
- **State + local share**: $17,030
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 378
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,334,094
- **Federal share**: 14.6%
- **State share**: 54.8%
- **Local share**: 30.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,607,306

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,126
- **Poverty rate**: 16.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,135
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.8 miles (WASTE DISPOSAL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 19
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 171
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.11 miles (BEAUMONT TRUST PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHITTIER-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Pioneer High** — 0.2 mi away, 1.03% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Daniel Phelan Language Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 16% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Katherine Edwards Mid Sch STEAM & Dual Immersion Acad** — 1.0 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 16.8%)
- **El Rancho High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Ruben Salazar Continuation** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Pioneer High** — 0.2 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 44.95%)
- **Daniel Phelan Language Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 47% (this school: 44.95%)
- **Jersey Avenue Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 45.35% (this school: 44.95%)
- **Whittier High** — 1.9 mi away, 54.55% (this school: 44.95%)
- **Lakeview Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 51.2% (this school: 44.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Whittier High** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Unsworth (Edith) Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Santa Fe High** — 2.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Lake Center Middle** — 2.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Gallatin Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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

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