# Joel J. Hidahl Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060813011490`
- **School name**: Joel J. Hidahl Elementary
- **Location**: Ceres, CA 95307
- **Address**: 2351 East Redwood Rd.
- **District**: Ceres Unified (LEAID `0608130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.57351, -120.95310
- **Phone**: (209)556-1650
- **Website**: https://www.ceres.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 393
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.1% proficient — 232 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.8% (63 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 51.1% (224 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.6% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 81.4%
- **Black/African American**: 4.1%
- **Asian**: 1.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.9%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 83.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.3% — 48 students
- **English Learners**: 36.7% — 156 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,492
- **Federal share**: $4,036
- **State + local share**: $16,456
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 425
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,612,712
- **Federal share**: 11.1%
- **State share**: 74.5%
- **Local share**: 14.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,251,483

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,738
- **Poverty rate**: 21.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,386
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.4 miles (MODESTO GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 39
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.56 miles (PROPOSED SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ALTERNATIVE EDUCATI)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CERES, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.09227 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 12% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Central Valley High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Lucas Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 8.3% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Argus High (Continuation)** — 1.2 mi away, 8.7% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Endeavor Alternative** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Patricia Kay Beaver Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 40.3% (this school: 37.05%)
- **Central Valley High** — 0.5 mi away, 59.05% (this school: 37.05%)
- **Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology** — 1.3 mi away, 57.75% (this school: 37.05%)
- **Whitmore Charter High** — 1.3 mi away, 47.65% (this school: 37.05%)
- **Ceres High** — 1.5 mi away, 57.65% (this school: 37.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **La Rosa Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **M. Robert Adkison Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Keyes to Learning Charter** — 2.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **John H. Pitman High** — 5.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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

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