# Yucca Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062958004578`
- **School name**: Yucca Elementary
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93550
- **Address**: 38440 Second St. East
- **District**: Palmdale Elementary (LEAID `0629580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.58250, -118.12720
- **Phone**: (661)273-5052
- **Website**: https://www.palmdalesd.org/yu

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 495
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 25.6% proficient — 197 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 44.0% (247 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 34.4% (186 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.4% (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**: 97.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.5% — 74 students
- **English Learners**: 28.1% — 134 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,824
- **Federal share**: $2,845
- **State + local share**: $16,979
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 477
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,574,168
- **Federal share**: 18.4%
- **State share**: 70.2%
- **Local share**: 11.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,260,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,000
- **Poverty rate**: 31.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,461
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 40.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.4 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 26.64 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **R. Rex Parris High** — 0.6 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 44%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 0.7 mi away, 21.2% (this school: 44%)
- **Palm Tree Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 31.8% (this school: 44%)
- **Tumbleweed Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 34.4% (this school: 44%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 27.2% (this school: 44%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 0.7 mi away, 56.4% (this school: 22.8%)
- **Palm Tree Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 30.2% (this school: 22.8%)
- **Tumbleweed Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 28.9% (this school: 22.8%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 38.75% (this school: 22.8%)
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 1.7 mi away, 40.4% (this school: 22.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 1.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Palmdale Discovery Center** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **David G. Millen Law and Government Magnet Academy** — 2.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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