# Ralph Emerson Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ralph-emerson-elementary-burbank

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060645000567`
- **School name**: Ralph Emerson Elementary
- **Location**: Burbank, CA 91501
- **Address**: 720 East Cypress Ave.
- **District**: Burbank Unified (LEAID `0606450`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.19054, -118.30684
- **Phone**: (818)729-1200

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 548
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.5% proficient — 275 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.9% (83 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.4% (63 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)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.0%
- **Black/African American**: 6.5%
- **Asian**: 2.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 66.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 3.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 32.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 77 students
- **English Learners**: 21.5% — 116 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $199,900
- **Federal share**: $12,579
- **State + local share**: $187,321
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 540
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,023,795
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 36.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,156,584

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,677
- **Poverty rate**: 5.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 46.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,467
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.2 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 95
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.94 miles (OVROM PARK AND SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1636 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **John Muir Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Burbank High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Burbank USD Community Day** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 10% (this school: 14.9%)
- **Walt Disney Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 14.7% (this school: 14.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **John Muir Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 59.75% (this school: 51.25%)
- **Joaquin Miller Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 51.55% (this school: 51.25%)
- **Thomas Jefferson Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 56.2% (this school: 51.25%)
- **Walt Disney Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 60.95% (this school: 51.25%)
- **Burroughs High** — 1.9 mi away, 71.4% (this school: 51.25%)

### math proficiency
- **John Muir Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Walt Disney Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Providencia Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Mark Keppel Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Luther Burbank Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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