# La Paloma Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/la-paloma-elementary-fallbrook/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/la-paloma-elementary-fallbrook

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061350001541`
- **School name**: La Paloma Elementary
- **Location**: Fallbrook, CA 92028
- **Address**: 300 Heald Ln.
- **District**: Fallbrook Union Elementary (LEAID `0613500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.37938, -117.23510
- **Phone**: (760)731-4220
- **Website**: http://lap.fuesd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 499
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 58.4% proficient — 272 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.8% (121 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 40.5% (178 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)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 72.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 0.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 22.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.0% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 30.0% — 157 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,234
- **Federal share**: $1,592
- **State + local share**: $18,642
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 524
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,031,498
- **Federal share**: 28.2%
- **State share**: 45.1%
- **Local share**: 26.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,863,646

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,307
- **Poverty rate**: 16.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.0%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,804
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.9 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.50 miles (NORTH SANTA FE ORANGE PROJECT SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FALLBROOK PUD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.00639 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **William H. Frazier Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 21.5% (this school: 21.8%)
- **Santa Margarita Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 21.8%)
- **Maie Ellis Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 11.3% (this school: 21.8%)
- **Oasis High (Alternative)** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 21.8%)
- **Fallbrook High** — 2.1 mi away, 1.68% (this school: 21.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Mary Fay Pendleton Elementary** — 5.5 mi away, 70.85% (this school: 69.2%)
- **Mission Vista High** — 8.7 mi away, 77.8% (this school: 69.2%)
- **Erle Stanley Gardner Middle** — 9.6 mi away, 69.9% (this school: 69.2%)
- **Great Oak High** — 9.7 mi away, 74.2% (this school: 69.2%)
- **Abby Reinke Elementary** — 11.5 mi away, 70.45% (this school: 69.2%)

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