# Rachel Carson Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rachel-carson-elementary-san-jose

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063459005706`
- **School name**: Rachel Carson Elementary
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95136
- **Address**: 4245 Meg Dr.
- **District**: San Jose Unified (LEAID `0634590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.27012, -121.85514
- **Phone**: (408)535-6287

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 199
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.1% proficient — 79 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 30.4% (65 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.0% (19 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (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**: 44.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.5% — 46 students
- **English Learners**: 21.9% — 43 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 38 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,738
- **Federal share**: $4,021
- **State + local share**: $23,717
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 196
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,727,655
- **Federal share**: 8.7%
- **State share**: 23.6%
- **Local share**: 67.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,538,692

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $184,808
- **Poverty rate**: 2.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 50.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,415
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 36
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.50 miles (ORVIETO FAMILY APARTMENTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.386 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Gunderson High** — 0.8 mi away, 0.36% (this school: 30.4%)
- **Del Roble Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 17.2% (this school: 30.4%)
- **Broadway High** — 1.5 mi away, 3.28% (this school: 30.4%)
- **Hacienda Science/Environmental Magnet** — 1.6 mi away, 13.9% (this school: 30.4%)
- **KIPP Heritage Academy** — 1.7 mi away, 6.3% (this school: 30.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Del Roble Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 63.4% (this school: 54.05%)
- **Hacienda Science/Environmental Magnet** — 1.6 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 54.05%)
- **University Preparatory Academy Charter** — 1.8 mi away, 72.9% (this school: 54.05%)
- **Schallenberger Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 67.3% (this school: 54.05%)
- **Indigo** — 1.9 mi away, 60.25% (this school: 54.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Del Roble Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **University Preparatory Academy Charter** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Summit Public School: Tahoma** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Reed Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Hammer Montessori at Galarza Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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