# Gretchen Higgins Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061128010679`
- **School name**: Gretchen Higgins Elementary
- **Location**: Dixon, CA 95620
- **Address**: 1525 Pembroke Way
- **District**: Dixon Unified (LEAID `0611280`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 38.46099, -121.82972
- **Phone**: (707)693-6380
- **Website**: https://www.dixonusd.org/higgins

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 353
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.0% proficient — 191 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 20.4% (79 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 52.2% (204 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: 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)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 62.2%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 4.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 23.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 7.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.2% — 64 students
- **English Learners**: 31.6% — 118 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,076
- **Federal share**: $1,468
- **State + local share**: $12,608
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 373
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,920,027
- **Federal share**: 11.5%
- **State share**: 51.6%
- **Local share**: 36.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,975,675

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,088
- **Poverty rate**: 7.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.9%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,873
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.8 miles (LABORATORY FOR ENERGY RELATED HEALTH RESEARCH OLD CAMPUS LANDFILL USDOE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.47 miles (CITY OF WINTERS WWTP)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.89099 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Dixon Montessori Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 4% (this school: 20.4%)
- **Maine Prairie High (Continuation)** — 1.0 mi away, 9.33% (this school: 20.4%)
- **Dixon High** — 1.8 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 20.4%)
- **Fairfield Elementary** — 6.0 mi away, 12.2% (this school: 20.4%)
- **Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High** — 6.9 mi away, 7.5% (this school: 20.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Dixon Montessori Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 58.15% (this school: 37%)
- **Anderson (Linford L.) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 37.7% (this school: 37%)
- **John Knight Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 38.15% (this school: 37%)
- **Tremont Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 39.4% (this school: 37%)
- **Dixon High** — 1.8 mi away, 50.85% (this school: 37%)

### math proficiency
- **Dixon Montessori Charter** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Anderson (Linford L.) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Tremont Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High** — 6.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Patwin Elementary** — 7.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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