# Neal Dow Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/neal-dow-elementary-chico

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060837000823`
- **School name**: Neal Dow Elementary
- **Location**: Chico, CA 95926
- **Address**: 1420 Neal Dow Ave.
- **District**: Chico Unified (LEAID `0608370`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 39.74940, -121.83230
- **Phone**: (530)891-3110

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 364
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.1% proficient — 142 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 20.0% (75 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.7% (87 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (12 students) [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**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 24.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.6%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 13.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.9% — 71 students
- **English Learners**: 3.8% — 13 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,411
- **Federal share**: $1,733
- **State + local share**: $18,678
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 339
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,062,021
- **Federal share**: 13.3%
- **State share**: 51.0%
- **Local share**: 35.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,441,314

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $79,390
- **Poverty rate**: 15.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,614
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 24.0 miles (KOPPERS CO INC OROVILLE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.48 miles (CHUCK PATTERSON INC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DEL ORO WATER CO.-PARADISE PINES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.98977 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hooker Oak Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 15.5% (this school: 20%)
- **Bidwell Junior High** — 0.7 mi away, 19.4% (this school: 20%)
- **Sierra View Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 8% (this school: 20%)
- **Chico Junior High** — 1.1 mi away, 18.6% (this school: 20%)
- **Parkview Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 12.3% (this school: 20%)

### ela proficiency
- **Hooker Oak Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 58.25% (this school: 58.05%)
- **Bidwell Junior High** — 0.7 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 58.05%)
- **Sierra View Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 63.25% (this school: 58.05%)
- **Pleasant Valley High** — 1.1 mi away, 63.4% (this school: 58.05%)
- **Chico High** — 1.2 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 58.05%)

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