# Starlight Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062949009601`
- **School name**: Starlight Elementary
- **Location**: Watsonville, CA 95076
- **Address**: 225 Hammer Dr.
- **District**: Pajaro Valley Unified (LEAID `0629490`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 36.92144, -121.77240
- **Phone**: (831)728-6974

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 383
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.6%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 31.4% proficient — 199 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.6% (102 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.7% (100 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.1% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.1% (21 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**: 93.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.7% — 69 students
- **English Learners**: 76.8% — 318 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 31 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 414
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,285,950
- **Federal share**: 12.9%
- **State share**: 56.5%
- **Local share**: 30.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,654,812

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,838
- **Poverty rate**: 14.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.6%
- **Unemployment**: 14.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,711
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.8 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.67 miles (GILROY MONTEREY RD 7301 7363)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WATSONVILLE, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.00551 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 23.6%)
- **New School Community Day** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Rolling Hills Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 16.6% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Freedom Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 21.7% (this school: 23.6%)
- **Santa Cruz County Career Advancement Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 23.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 0.2 mi away, 61% (this school: 31.4%)
- **Watsonville Prep** — 1.1 mi away, 32.8% (this school: 31.4%)
- **Ceiba College Preparatory Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 31.45% (this school: 31.4%)
- **Linscott Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 65.95% (this school: 31.4%)
- **Watsonville Charter School of the Arts** — 3.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 31.4%)

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