# Esperanza Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064212011319`
- **School name**: Esperanza Elementary
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93551
- **Address**: 40521 35th St. West
- **District**: Westside Union Elementary (LEAID `0642120`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.61794, -118.19536
- **Phone**: (661)575-0420
- **Website**: https://www.westside.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 962
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.9%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.8% proficient — 545 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 24.0% (251 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.7% (159 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (13 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**: 61.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.8% — 117 students
- **English Learners**: 8.6% — 85 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 57 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 36 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,825
- **Federal share**: $1,282
- **State + local share**: $13,543
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 990
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,011,678
- **Federal share**: 7.1%
- **State share**: 65.5%
- **Local share**: 27.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,904,110

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $129,757
- **Poverty rate**: 1.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 41.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,692
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 28.8 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 26.49 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**: 7.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hillview Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 16% (this school: 24%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 1.7 mi away, 10.4% (this school: 24%)
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 17.9% (this school: 24%)
- **Highland High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 24%)
- **Dos Caminos Dual Immersion** — 2.9 mi away, 17.1% (this school: 24%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rancho Vista Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 48.7% (this school: 43.8%)
- **Hillview Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 48.8% (this school: 43.8%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 1.7 mi away, 71.25% (this school: 43.8%)
- **Cottonwood Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 55.4% (this school: 43.8%)
- **Quartz Hill Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 57.55% (this school: 43.8%)

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