# Joseph M. Simas

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061647010816`
- **School name**: Joseph M. Simas
- **Location**: Hanford, CA 93230
- **Address**: 1875 Fitzgerald
- **District**: Hanford Elementary (LEAID `0616470`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 36.34600, -119.66721
- **Phone**: (559)585-3790
- **Website**: https://simas.hanfordesd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 514
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 53.4% proficient — 273 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 8.8% (47 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.3% (32 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 57.5%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 4.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 27.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 3.5%
- **Two or more races**: 4.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 72 students
- **English Learners**: 11.2% — 57 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,268
- **Federal share**: $2,247
- **State + local share**: $13,021
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 543
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,319,690
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 77.3%
- **Local share**: 8.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,679,228

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $93,700
- **Poverty rate**: 4.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,754
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.0 miles (SELMA PRESSURE TREATING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.24 miles (AVENUE 395 AND ROAD 2)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HANFORD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 8
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.9062 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hanford Online Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 3.29% (this school: 8.8%)
- **Jefferson Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 3.6% (this school: 8.8%)
- **J. C. Montgomery** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.8%)
- **Hanford West High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 8.8%)
- **Hanford Community Day** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Jefferson Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 68.9% (this school: 59.7%)
- **Kings River-Hardwick Elementary** — 4.1 mi away, 62% (this school: 59.7%)
- **Liberty Middle** — 7.4 mi away, 60% (this school: 59.7%)
- **Island Elementary** — 9.3 mi away, 69.45% (this school: 59.7%)
- **Lemoore Middle College High** — 9.5 mi away, 77.25% (this school: 59.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Jefferson Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Kings River-Hardwick Elementary** — 4.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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