# Joseph Arnold Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/joseph-arnold-elementary-torrance

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063942006552`
- **School name**: Joseph Arnold Elementary
- **Location**: Torrance, CA 90505
- **Address**: 4100 227th St.
- **District**: Torrance Unified (LEAID `0639420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.82200, -118.35700
- **Phone**: (310)533-4524

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 628
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.0% proficient — 292 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.1% (32 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.5% (10 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: 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**: 28.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.4% — 99 students
- **English Learners**: 24.3% — 147 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 19 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,215
- **Federal share**: $524
- **State + local share**: $15,691
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 604
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,192,478
- **Federal share**: 9.8%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,520,994

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $103,073
- **Poverty rate**: 7.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 60.3%
- **Unemployment**: 9.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,024
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 107
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.99 miles (DEL AMO)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TORRANCE-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Seaside Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 4.9% (this school: 5.1%)
- **South High** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.1%)
- **Anza Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 5.1%)
- **Hickory Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 4.6% (this school: 5.1%)
- **Walteria Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 4.8% (this school: 5.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Seaside Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 64.9% (this school: 63%)
- **Calle Mayor Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 63.05% (this school: 63%)
- **South High** — 0.8 mi away, 66.5% (this school: 63%)
- **Anza Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 65.4% (this school: 63%)
- **Edward J. Richardson Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 73.85% (this school: 63%)

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