# Costano Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/costano-elementary-east-palo-alto

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063186004915`
- **School name**: Costano Elementary
- **Location**: East Palo Alto, CA 94303
- **Address**: 2695 Fordham St.
- **District**: Ravenswood City Elementary (LEAID `0631860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.47812, -122.13847
- **Phone**: (650)329-2830
- **Website**: https://www.ravenswoodschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 369
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.0%

## 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)**: 22.2% proficient — 134 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 51.4% (203 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.8% (170 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.5% (81 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 10.4% (33 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**: 84.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.2% — 77 students
- **English Learners**: 70.4% — 224 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,800
- **Federal share**: $3,289
- **State + local share**: $30,511
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 318
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $39,139,869
- **Federal share**: 15.2%
- **State share**: 47.0%
- **Local share**: 37.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $17,707,843

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $131,618
- **Poverty rate**: 9.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.1%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.9 miles (HEWLETT PACKARD 620 640 PAGE MILL ROAD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.44 miles (NE CORNER OF UNIVERSITY BAY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.31055 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 33.9% (this school: 51.4%)
- **KIPP Esperanza High** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 51.4%)
- **Aspire East Palo Alto Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 22.8% (this school: 51.4%)
- **Oxford Day Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 51.4%)
- **East Palo Alto Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 51.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **East Palo Alto Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 39.7% (this school: 30.1%)
- **Duveneck Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 30.1%)
- **Tide Academy** — 2.0 mi away, 72% (this school: 30.1%)
- **Laurel Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 59.75% (this school: 30.1%)
- **Menlo-Atherton High** — 2.3 mi away, 74.55% (this school: 30.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Duveneck Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Tide Academy** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Laurel Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Menlo-Atherton High** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Addison Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

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