# Del Mar Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/del-mar-elementary-santa-cruz/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/del-mar-elementary-santa-cruz

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062199007435`
- **School name**: Del Mar Elementary
- **Location**: Santa Cruz, CA 95062
- **Address**: 1959 Merrill St.
- **District**: Live Oak Elementary (LEAID `0621990`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 36.96526, -121.98462
- **Phone**: (831)477-2063
- **Website**: http://dm.losd.ca

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 322
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.4%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.3% proficient — 143 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.2% (59 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.8% (82 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (6 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**: 62.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.1% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 41.0% — 127 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,045
- **Federal share**: $1,565
- **State + local share**: $19,480
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 310
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,600,694
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 50.3%
- **Local share**: 36.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,962,384

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $85,618
- **Poverty rate**: 18.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,295
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.4 miles (WATKINS JOHNSON CO STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.36 miles (POGONIP FARM AND GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA CRUZ WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.20139 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Shoreline Middle** — 0.2 mi away, 14.6% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Live Oak Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 12.7% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Tierra Pacifica Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 11% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Green Acres Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 17.5% (this school: 18.2%)
- **Ocean Alternative Education Center** — 1.3 mi away, 4.3% (this school: 18.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Shoreline Middle** — 0.2 mi away, 54.9% (this school: 45.3%)
- **Tierra Pacifica Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 58.1% (this school: 45.3%)
- **Green Acres Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 65.35% (this school: 45.3%)
- **Harbor High** — 1.5 mi away, 60.45% (this school: 45.3%)
- **Gault Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 63% (this school: 45.3%)

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