# Independent Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independent-elementary-castro-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060780009342`
- **School name**: Independent Elementary
- **Location**: Castro Valley, CA 94552
- **Address**: 21201 Independent School Rd.
- **District**: Castro Valley Unified (LEAID `0607800`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.69855, -122.05076
- **Phone**: (510)537-9558

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 662
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 28.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 62.1% proficient — 309 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.9% (40 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (10 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **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**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.2%
- **Black/African American**: 48.1%
- **Asian**: 4.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 19.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 13.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 27.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.9% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 13.3% — 88 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,480
- **Federal share**: $176
- **State + local share**: $13,304
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 684
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,129,603
- **Federal share**: 11.1%
- **State share**: 62.3%
- **Local share**: 26.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,849,829

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $211,029
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 63.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,859
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.1 miles (AMCO CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.33 miles (HAYWARD CITY CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NORRIS CANYON PROPERTY OWNERS ASSN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.17981 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Castro Valley High** — 1.5 mi away, 0.21% (this school: 5.9%)
- **Proctor Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 5.6% (this school: 5.9%)
- **Hayward High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 5.9%)
- **Redwood Continuation High** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.9%)
- **Roy A. Johnson High** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Marshall Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 70.75% (this school: 64.05%)
- **Jensen Ranch Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 74.95% (this school: 64.05%)
- **Proctor Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 72.3% (this school: 64.05%)
- **Chabot Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 64.05%)
- **East Bay Innovation Academy** — 5.9 mi away, 66.15% (this school: 64.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Marshall Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Palomares Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Jensen Ranch Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Proctor Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Chabot Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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