# La Canada Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062013002407`
- **School name**: La Canada Elementary
- **Location**: La Canada, CA 91011
- **Address**: 4540 Encinas Dr.
- **District**: La Canada Unified (LEAID `0620130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.20857, -118.20580
- **Phone**: (818)952-8350
- **Website**: https://www.lcelions.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 633
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 6.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 72.0% proficient — 364 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 3.1% (20 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (7 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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 5.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 66 students
- **English Learners**: 3.3% — 21 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,547
- **Federal share**: $97
- **State + local share**: $16,450
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 639
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,955,879
- **Federal share**: 5.5%
- **State share**: 36.0%
- **Local share**: 58.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,615,404

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $250,001
- **Poverty rate**: 2.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 84.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.47 miles (7053 FIGUEROA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LA CANADA IRRIGATION DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Crescenta Valley High** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.1%)
- **John Muir High** — 3.3 mi away, 2.03% (this school: 3.1%)
- **Anderson W. Clark Magnet High** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.1%)
- **Glendale High** — 4.6 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 3.1%)
- **Herbert Hoover High** — 4.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Paradise Canyon Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 73.85% (this school: 46%)
- **Palm Crest Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 78.95% (this school: 46%)
- **John C. Fremont Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 60% (this school: 46%)
- **Mountain Avenue Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 46%)
- **La Canada High** — 1.9 mi away, 79% (this school: 46%)

### math proficiency
- **Paradise Canyon Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Palm Crest Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Mountain Avenue Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **La Canada High** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Rosemont Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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