# Forty-Second Street Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/forty-second-street-elementary-los-angeles/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/forty-second-street-elementary-los-angeles

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271003016`
- **School name**: Forty-Second Street Elementary
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90008
- **Address**: 4231 Fourth Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.00630, -118.32181
- **Phone**: (323)296-7550
- **Website**: http://42ndstes.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 215
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 28.1% proficient — 73 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 36.9% (89 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.0% (88 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 25.5% — 48 students
- **English Learners**: 11.7% — 22 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $48,023
- **Federal share**: $10,379
- **State + local share**: $37,644
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 188
### 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**: $84,271
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,090
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.4 miles (EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES VERNON)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 74
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.93 miles (3950 HOBART)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES-CITY, DEPT. OF WATER & POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1636 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **New Heights Charter** — 0.4 mi away, 22.6% (this school: 36.9%)
- **CATCH Prep Charter High Inc.** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Crenshaw Sci Tech Engr Math and Med Magnet** — 0.8 mi away, 3.56% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Whitney Young Continuation** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 34.7% (this school: 36.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **New Heights Charter** — 0.4 mi away, 41.05% (this school: 24.05%)
- **CATCH Prep Charter High Inc.** — 0.4 mi away, 34.7% (this school: 24.05%)
- **Audubon Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 27% (this school: 24.05%)
- **Today's Fresh Start-Compton** — 0.6 mi away, 31.25% (this school: 24.05%)
- **Tom Bradley Global Awareness Magnet** — 0.6 mi away, 42.7% (this school: 24.05%)

### math proficiency
- **New Heights Charter** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Tom Bradley Global Awareness Magnet** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Angeles Mesa Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Computer Science Virtual Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Lashon Academy City** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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