# Whittier Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/whittier-elementary-costa-mesa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062724004132`
- **School name**: Whittier Elementary
- **Location**: Costa Mesa, CA 92627
- **Address**: 1800 Whittier Ave.
- **District**: Newport-Mesa Unified (LEAID `0627240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.64050, -117.94007
- **Phone**: (949)515-6990
- **Website**: https://www.nmusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 454
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.6% proficient — 265 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.6% (69 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 31.7% (134 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (11 students) [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**: 91.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.9% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 57.3% — 262 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,805
- **Federal share**: $2,620
- **State + local share**: $25,185
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 457
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,018,873
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 17.7%
- **Local share**: 74.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,756,263

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,273
- **Poverty rate**: 6.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,140
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.0 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 11
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 54
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.50 miles (GARDEN GROVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MESA  WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Estancia High** — 1.3 mi away, 1.75% (this school: 14.6%)
- **John H. Eader Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 7.7% (this school: 14.6%)
- **Newport Heights Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 14.6%)
- **Edison High** — 1.8 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 14.6%)
- **International School for Science and Culture** — 1.8 mi away, 13.9% (this school: 14.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Victoria Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 35.75% (this school: 28.3%)
- **Pomona Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 29.55% (this school: 28.3%)
- **Everett A. Rea Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 32.55% (this school: 28.3%)
- **Estancia High** — 1.3 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 28.3%)
- **John H. Eader Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 71.9% (this school: 28.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Estancia High** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **John H. Eader Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Newport Heights Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **International School for Science and Culture** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Newport Harbor High** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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

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