# Cortez Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063132011672`
- **School name**: Cortez Elementary
- **Location**: Pomona, CA 91768
- **Address**: 1300 North Dudley
- **District**: Pomona Unified (LEAID `0631320`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.07061, -117.77769
- **Phone**: (909)397-4750
- **Website**: https://www.pusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 607
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.1% proficient — 428 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.3% (97 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.6% (36 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (6 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**: 91.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.1% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 21.0% — 130 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,654
- **Federal share**: $2,462
- **State + local share**: $18,192
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 619
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,599,023
- **Federal share**: 17.6%
- **State share**: 60.9%
- **Local share**: 21.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,974,029

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $92,578
- **Poverty rate**: 18.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,863
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.1 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 54
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.91 miles (RIDGEWAY)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 15.0374 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ganesha High** — 0.7 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 15.3%)
- **School of Extended Educational Options** — 2.2 mi away, 4.2% (this school: 15.3%)
- **Pomona High** — 2.3 mi away, 8.05% (this school: 15.3%)
- **J. Marion Roynon Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 13.6% (this school: 15.3%)
- **Bonita High** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 15.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Arroyo Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 35.6% (this school: 32.05%)
- **Marshall Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 60.7% (this school: 32.05%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 35.8% (this school: 32.05%)
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 32.2% (this school: 32.05%)
- **Westmont Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 40% (this school: 32.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Marshall Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **La Verne Science and Technology Charter** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Vejar Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **School of Extended Educational Options** — 2.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **J. Marion Roynon Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

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