# Sierra Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-elementary-placerville

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063078004787`
- **School name**: Sierra Elementary
- **Location**: Placerville, CA 95667
- **Address**: 1100 Thompson Way
- **District**: Placerville Union Elementary (LEAID `0630780`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 38.72836, -120.79174
- **Phone**: (530)622-0814
- **Website**: https://www.pusdk8.us/sierra

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 402
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 52.5% proficient — 189 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.1% (54 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.2% (88 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (4 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 48.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.7% — 62 students
- **English Learners**: 10.9% — 46 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 31 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,814
- **Federal share**: $1,338
- **State + local share**: $13,476
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 422
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,183,604
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 56.5%
- **Local share**: 34.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,253,629

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $80,982
- **Poverty rate**: 12.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,605
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.5 miles (AEROJET GENERAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 18.18 miles (NEW LONDON MINE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: EL DORADO ID - MAIN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **El Dorado High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.84% (this school: 12.1%)
- **Sky Mountain Charter** — 2.6 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 12.1%)
- **Charles F. Brown Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 4.8% (this school: 12.1%)
- **Charter Alternative Program (CAP)** — 4.1 mi away, 7.1% (this school: 12.1%)
- **Charter Community School Home Study Academy** — 4.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **El Dorado High** — 1.1 mi away, 54.1% (this school: 52.5%)
- **Sky Mountain Charter** — 2.6 mi away, 58.95% (this school: 52.5%)
- **Pacific Crest Academy** — 4.3 mi away, 64.85% (this school: 52.5%)
- **Union Mine High** — 4.4 mi away, 53.6% (this school: 52.5%)
- **Camino Elementary** — 6.2 mi away, 57.3% (this school: 52.5%)

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