# Paloma Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063488010068`
- **School name**: Paloma Elementary
- **Location**: San Marcos, CA 92069
- **Address**: 660 Camino Magnifico
- **District**: San Marcos Unified (LEAID `0634880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.15960, -117.18580
- **Phone**: (760)290-2199
- **Website**: https://www.smusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 758
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 31.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 63.2% proficient — 337 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.7% (88 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (62 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (3 students) [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**: 30.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.0% — 156 students
- **English Learners**: 17.1% — 127 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,481
- **Federal share**: $1,128
- **State + local share**: $14,353
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 742
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,635,052
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 52.8%
- **Local share**: 36.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,240,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,706
- **Poverty rate**: 10.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.2%
- **Unemployment**: 2.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,685
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.5 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 31
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.55 miles (256 W MISSION ROAD CITY OF SAN MARCOS CA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VALLECITOS WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.67632 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **High Tech Elementary North County** — 2.0 mi away, 11% (this school: 11.7%)
- **High Tech Middle North County** — 2.1 mi away, 7.2% (this school: 11.7%)
- **High Tech High North County** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 11.7%)
- **Twin Oaks High** — 2.1 mi away, 6.1% (this school: 11.7%)
- **Classical Academy Vista** — 2.2 mi away, 2.9% (this school: 11.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **High Tech High North County** — 2.1 mi away, 74.75% (this school: 71.6%)
- **Sage Creek High** — 5.7 mi away, 76.85% (this school: 71.6%)
- **La Costa Heights Elementary** — 6.4 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 71.6%)
- **Aviara Oaks Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 75.4% (this school: 71.6%)
- **El Camino Creek Elementary** — 7.2 mi away, 74.35% (this school: 71.6%)

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