# Ponderosa Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ponderosa-elementary-anaheim/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060261012518`
- **School name**: Ponderosa Elementary
- **Location**: Anaheim, CA 92802
- **Address**: 2135 South Mountain View Ave.
- **District**: Anaheim Elementary (LEAID `0602610`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.79483, -117.90414
- **Phone**: (714)517-8926
- **Website**: https://www.acsd.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 785
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.4%

## 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)**: 27.1% proficient — 450 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 29.8% (268 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.5% (198 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.5% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (23 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 91.7%
- **Black/African American**: 3.0%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.9%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 71.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.0% — 126 students
- **English Learners**: 66.8% — 562 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,895
- **Federal share**: $1,553
- **State + local share**: $17,342
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 842
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,362,787
- **Federal share**: 12.3%
- **State share**: 47.6%
- **Local share**: 40.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,309,636

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,986
- **Poverty rate**: 17.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.1%
- **Unemployment**: 8.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,948
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.4 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 147
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.60 miles (KWIKSET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ANAHEIM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Earl Warren Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 25.3% (this school: 29.8%)
- **Parkview Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 20% (this school: 29.8%)
- **Lampson Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 26.3% (this school: 29.8%)
- **Izaak Walton Intermediate** — 1.1 mi away, 16.3% (this school: 29.8%)
- **ACCESS Juvenile Hall** — 1.1 mi away, 7.8% (this school: 29.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Stoddard (Alexander J.) Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 54.3% (this school: 53.55%)
- **Ocia A. Peters Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 66.8% (this school: 53.55%)
- **Garden Grove High** — 2.2 mi away, 65.1% (this school: 53.55%)
- **West Orange Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 58.6% (this school: 53.55%)
- **Santiago Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 60.65% (this school: 53.55%)

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