# Sierra Madre Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062994004687`
- **School name**: Sierra Madre Elementary
- **Location**: Sierra Madre, CA 91024
- **Address**: 141 West Highland Ave.
- **District**: Pasadena Unified (LEAID `0629940`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.16477, -118.05588
- **Phone**: (626)396-5890
- **Website**: http://sme.pusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 652
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Blue
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Blue
  - ela: Blue
  - chronic_absent: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 62.7% proficient — 327 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.3% (71 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (8 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**: 35.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.6% — 90 students
- **English Learners**: 1.9% — 12 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,085
- **Federal share**: $3,831
- **State + local share**: $21,254
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 618
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,845,413
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 40.3%
- **Local share**: 45.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,844,313

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $114,815
- **Poverty rate**: 5.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 65.8%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,075
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.2 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.26 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Field (Eugene) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 4.4% (this school: 11.3%)
- **Highland Oaks Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 4.5% (this school: 11.3%)
- **Foothills Middle** — 1.9 mi away, 6.7% (this school: 11.3%)
- **Hugo Reid Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 5.5% (this school: 11.3%)
- **Pasadena High** — 2.1 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 11.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Highland Oaks Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 73.85% (this school: 71.35%)
- **Baldwin Stocker Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 72.1% (this school: 71.35%)
- **Carver Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 75.2% (this school: 71.35%)
- **Emperor Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 72.95% (this school: 71.35%)
- **San Marino High** — 3.7 mi away, 81.75% (this school: 71.35%)

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