# Orion Alternative

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orion-alternative-redwood-city/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orion-alternative-redwood-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063213008182`
- **School name**: Orion Alternative
- **Location**: Redwood City, CA 94063
- **Address**: 555 Avenue Del Ora
- **District**: Redwood City Elementary (LEAID `0632130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.47420, -122.24160
- **Phone**: (650)482-2412
- **Website**: https://orion.rcsdk8.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 512
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 27.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 53.5% proficient — 150 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.6% (61 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.5% (36 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**: 28.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.7% — 54 students
- **English Learners**: 18.9% — 87 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,521
- **Federal share**: $2,471
- **State + local share**: $21,050
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 461
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,162,860
- **Federal share**: 9.3%
- **State share**: 22.6%
- **Local share**: 68.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,213,548

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $250,001
- **Poverty rate**: 1.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 68.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.5 miles (HEWLETT PACKARD 620 640 PAGE MILL ROAD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 42
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.43 miles (1508 BAY RD EAST PALO ALTO)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF REDWOOD CITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.31055 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **McKinley Institute of Technology** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.6%)
- **North Star Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 3.2% (this school: 12.6%)
- **Sequoia High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.11% (this school: 12.6%)
- **Roy Cloud Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 8% (this school: 12.6%)
- **White Oaks Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 5.7% (this school: 12.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **North Star Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 79.95% (this school: 66.75%)
- **Roy Cloud Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 69.25% (this school: 66.75%)
- **White Oaks Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 66.75%)
- **Summit Preparatory Charter High** — 1.9 mi away, 67.55% (this school: 66.75%)
- **Brittan Acres Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 73.75% (this school: 66.75%)

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