# Happy Valley Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/happy-valley-elementary-santa-cruz/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/happy-valley-elementary-santa-cruz

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061656002088`
- **School name**: Happy Valley Elementary
- **Location**: Santa Cruz, CA 95065
- **Address**: 3125 Branciforte Dr.
- **District**: Happy Valley Elementary (LEAID `0616560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.02465, -121.99063
- **Phone**: (831)429-1456
- **Website**: https://www.hvesd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 106
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 6
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 7.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 65.7% proficient — 67 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.7% (23 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 69.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 19.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 10.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.7% — 7 students
- **English Learners**: 0.8% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,983
- **Federal share**: $415
- **State + local share**: $16,568
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 122
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,853,211
- **Federal share**: 5.6%
- **State share**: 16.8%
- **Local share**: 77.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,532,110

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $171,471
- **Poverty rate**: 11.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 59.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,256
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (WATKINS JOHNSON CO STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.48 miles (POGONIP FARM AND GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA CRUZ WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.20139 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 17.9% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Brook Knoll Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 12.6% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Scotts Valley Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 11.4% (this school: 18.7%)
- **De Laveaga Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 10.9% (this school: 18.7%)
- **California Connections Academy Monterey Bay** — 2.4 mi away, 14.4% (this school: 18.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Brook Knoll Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 71.25% (this school: 65.7%)
- **De Laveaga Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 66.2% (this school: 65.7%)
- **Vine Hill Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 71.1% (this school: 65.7%)
- **Santa Cruz High** — 4.4 mi away, 73.05% (this school: 65.7%)
- **San Lorenzo Valley High** — 5.6 mi away, 74.2% (this school: 65.7%)

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