# James A. Forrest Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/james-a-forrest-elementary-wasco

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064140014394`
- **School name**: James A. Forrest Elementary
- **Location**: Wasco, CA 93280
- **Address**: 401 North Griffith Ave.
- **District**: Wasco Union Elementary (LEAID `0641400`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 35.60416, -119.34096
- **Phone**: (661)758-7490
- **Website**: http://forrest.wuesd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 576
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.9% proficient — 248 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.3% (93 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.5% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 91.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.0% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 39.3% — 227 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,124
- **Federal share**: $1,059
- **State + local share**: $20,065
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 578
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,983,673
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 69.9%
- **Local share**: 16.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,752,187

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,455
- **Poverty rate**: 14.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $639
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 40.3 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 23.26 miles (PROPOSED VALLEY OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSION)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Thomas Jefferson Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 14.7% (this school: 15.3%)
- **Wasco High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.24% (this school: 15.3%)
- **Wasco Independence High** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 15.3%)
- **Teresa Burke Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 14.6% (this school: 15.3%)
- **Maple Elementary** — 6.2 mi away, 9.5% (this school: 15.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Thomas Jefferson Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 34.9% (this school: 28.45%)
- **Wasco High** — 0.7 mi away, 34.55% (this school: 28.45%)
- **Palm Avenue Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 30.05% (this school: 28.45%)
- **John L. Prueitt Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 32.7% (this school: 28.45%)
- **Teresa Burke Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 29.35% (this school: 28.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Richland Junior High** — 7.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Golden Oak Elementary** — 8.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Grow Academy Shafter** — 8.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Semitropic Elementary** — 9.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Harvest Elementary** — 13.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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