# Independence Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independence-elementary-south-gate/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independence-elementary-south-gate

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271007120`
- **School name**: Independence Elementary
- **Location**: South Gate, CA 90280
- **Address**: 8435 Victoria Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.95936, -118.20965
- **Phone**: (323)249-9559
- **Website**: https://indy-rockets.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 418
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.8% proficient — 217 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 30.5% (141 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.3% (80 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.8% — 74 students
- **English Learners**: 22.3% — 98 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 41 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,553
- **Federal share**: $6,021
- **State + local share**: $22,532
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 440
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $73,843
- **Poverty rate**: 13.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.3%
- **Unemployment**: 8.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,497
- **Foreign-born residents**: 50.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.9 miles (JERVIS B WEBB CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 336
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.68 miles (103RD ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH GATE-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **South Gate Senior High** — 0.3 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 30.5%)
- **Odyssey Continuation** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 30.5%)
- **State Street Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 26% (this school: 30.5%)
- **San Gabriel Avenue Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 28.4% (this school: 30.5%)
- **Hope Street Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 28.7% (this school: 30.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Willow Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 46% (this school: 42.8%)
- **Stanford Avenue Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 45% (this school: 42.8%)
- **Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy High** — 1.3 mi away, 48.7% (this school: 42.8%)
- **Bryson Avenue Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 44.25% (this school: 42.8%)
- **Bell Senior High** — 1.5 mi away, 50.8% (this school: 42.8%)

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