# Gateway Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063680000434`
- **School name**: Gateway Elementary
- **Location**: Ridgecrest, CA 93555
- **Address**: 501 South Gateway
- **District**: Sierra Sands Unified (LEAID `0636800`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 35.61430, -117.65290
- **Phone**: (760)499-1850
- **Website**: https://gateway.ssusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 346
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 66.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Yellow
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Yellow
  - ela: Yellow
  - chronic_absent: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 46.0% proficient — 169 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 27.9% (111 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.4% (83 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (8 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**: 60.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.1% — 67 students
- **English Learners**: 4.0% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,802
- **Federal share**: $1,209
- **State + local share**: $14,593
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 371
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,860,588
- **Federal share**: 13.6%
- **State share**: 69.4%
- **Local share**: 17.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,463,725

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $102,233
- **Poverty rate**: 7.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.5%
- **Unemployment**: 10.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,513
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 47.8 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 53.03 miles (PPG INDUSTRIES BARTLETT PLANT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: INDIAN WELLS VALLEY W.D.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.16849 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Burroughs High** — 1.5 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Murray Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 24.5% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Mesquite Continuation High** — 2.0 mi away, 1.94% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Ridgecrest Elem Acad for Language Music and Sci** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Las Flores Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 14.4% (this school: 27.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Burroughs High** — 1.5 mi away, 54.3% (this school: 49%)
- **Richmond Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 49.55% (this school: 49%)

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