# Sun Empire Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sun-empire-elementary-kerman

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061949008869`
- **School name**: Sun Empire Elementary
- **Location**: Kerman, CA 93630
- **Address**: 2649 North Modoc Ave.
- **District**: Kerman Unified (LEAID `0619490`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 36.77360, -120.08770
- **Phone**: (559)843-9200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 490
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.4% proficient — 318 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.8% (108 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.9% (69 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 87.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 85.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.9% — 42 students
- **English Learners**: 40.2% — 245 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,169
- **Federal share**: $2,093
- **State + local share**: $14,076
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 610
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,827,872
- **Federal share**: 17.0%
- **State share**: 68.1%
- **Local share**: 14.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,764,030

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $70,434
- **Poverty rate**: 16.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.2%
- **Unemployment**: 8.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,157
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.3 miles (FRESNO MUNICIPAL SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.80 miles (PROPOSED CONSTANCE SIERRA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.11189 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Kerman High** — 3.1 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Enterprise High** — 3.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Liberty Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Kerman-Floyd Elementary** — 3.8 mi away, 7.7% (this school: 16.8%)
- **Biola-Pershing Elementary** — 4.5 mi away, 16.3% (this school: 16.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Kerman High** — 3.1 mi away, 51.75% (this school: 47.7%)
- **Liberty Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 48.1% (this school: 47.7%)
- **Goldenrod Elementary** — 3.9 mi away, 54.95% (this school: 47.7%)
- **Houghton-Kearney Elementary** — 8.2 mi away, 49.05% (this school: 47.7%)
- **Justin Garza High** — 9.7 mi away, 68.95% (this school: 47.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Goldenrod Elementary** — 3.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **River Bluff Elementary** — 11.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Norman Liddell Elementary** — 12.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **H. Roger Tatarian Elementary** — 13.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **West Park Elementary** — 14.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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