# Denker Avenue Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/denker-avenue-elementary-gardena

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271002955`
- **School name**: Denker Avenue Elementary
- **Location**: Gardena, CA 90247
- **Address**: 1620 West 162nd St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.88351, -118.30514
- **Phone**: (310)327-9420
- **Website**: https://denkeravees.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 670
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.5% proficient — 276 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.9% (157 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.3% (58 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (6 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.1% — 74 students
- **English Learners**: 24.3% — 162 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,316
- **Federal share**: $3,963
- **State + local share**: $18,353
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 668
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $66,786
- **Poverty rate**: 13.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,705
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.5 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 229
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.21 miles (STRIP MALL)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 12.6% (this school: 22.9%)
- **Environmental Charter Middle - Gardena** — 0.9 mi away, 22.2% (this school: 22.9%)
- **Chapman Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 17.8% (this school: 22.9%)
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 22.9%)
- **Amestoy Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 21.3% (this school: 22.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Robert E. Peary Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 37.15% (this school: 33.75%)
- **One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 69.15% (this school: 33.75%)
- **Chapman Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 57% (this school: 33.75%)
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66.2% (this school: 33.75%)
- **Casimir Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 61.55% (this school: 33.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Robert E. Peary Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **One Hundred Fifty-Sixth Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Amestoy Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Casimir Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Arlington Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

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