# John E. Steinbeck Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060195009694`
- **School name**: John E. Steinbeck Elementary
- **Location**: Salinas, CA 93906
- **Address**: 1714 Burlington Dr.
- **District**: Alisal Union (LEAID `0601950`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 36.70860, -121.61730
- **Phone**: (831)753-5780

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 486
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.1% proficient — 299 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.1% (88 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.9% (39 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.9%
- **Black/African American**: 3.2%
- **Asian**: 1.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 0.0%
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 32 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,584
- **Federal share**: $3,031
- **State + local share**: $17,553
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 500
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,805,757
- **Federal share**: 13.1%
- **State share**: 69.9%
- **Local share**: 17.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,525,666

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $130,397
- **Poverty rate**: 7.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,050
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.5 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.76 miles (PEREZ AUTO REPAIR 15 SHERWOOD SALINAS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALCO WATER SERVICE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.16393 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Everett Alvarez High** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.1%)
- **Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 11.7% (this school: 17.1%)
- **Wellington M. Smith Jr.** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.1%)
- **Frank Paul Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 15.6% (this school: 17.1%)
- **La Paz Middle** — 1.4 mi away, 11% (this school: 17.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Everett Alvarez High** — 0.3 mi away, 34.5% (this school: 28.55%)
- **Creekside Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 37.7% (this school: 28.55%)
- **New Republic Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 37.75% (this school: 28.55%)
- **La Paz Middle** — 1.4 mi away, 29.25% (this school: 28.55%)
- **North Salinas High** — 1.6 mi away, 33.5% (this school: 28.55%)

### math proficiency
- **New Republic Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Harden Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rancho San Juan High** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **John Gutierrez Middle** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **La Joya Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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