# Cortada Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/cortada-elementary-el-monte

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061209001348`
- **School name**: Cortada Elementary
- **Location**: El Monte, CA 91733
- **Address**: 3111 North Potrero Ave.
- **District**: El Monte City (LEAID `0612090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.06530, -118.05630
- **Phone**: (626)575-2391

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 322
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.3% proficient — 170 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 10.0% (38 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.2% (48 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (4 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**: 84.0%
- **Black/African American**: 14.4%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 49 students
- **English Learners**: 61.2% — 221 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,390
- **Federal share**: $5,751
- **State + local share**: $20,639
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 361
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,140,752
- **Federal share**: 13.8%
- **State share**: 61.0%
- **Local share**: 25.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,519,625

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,664
- **Poverty rate**: 13.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,639
- **Foreign-born residents**: 59.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.6 miles (OPERATING INDUSTRIES INC LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 12
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 95
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.71 miles (CHAPIN ROAD LANDFILL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN GABRIEL VALLEY WATER CO.-EL MONTE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Potrero Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 6.9% (this school: 10%)
- **New Lexington Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 10%)
- **Wilkerson Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 10%)
- **El Monte High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 10%)
- **Mildred B. Janson Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 10%)

### ela proficiency
- **New Lexington Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 42.2% (this school: 32.65%)
- **Savannah Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 33.15% (this school: 32.65%)
- **El Monte High** — 1.3 mi away, 39.95% (this school: 32.65%)
- **Columbia Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 45.8% (this school: 32.65%)
- **Mildred B. Janson Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 39.2% (this school: 32.65%)

### math proficiency
- **New Lexington Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Wilkerson Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Willard (Frances E.) Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Muscatel Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sanchez (George I.) Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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