# Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063729006310`
- **School name**: Santa Cruz Gardens Elementary
- **Location**: Santa Cruz, CA 95065
- **Address**: 8005 Winkle Ave.
- **District**: Soquel Union Elementary (LEAID `0637290`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.00377, -121.97790
- **Phone**: (831)464-5670
- **Website**: https://www.scg.suesd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 214
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 8
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 30.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.5% proficient — 84 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.9% (37 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.1% (19 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**: 38.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 29 students
- **English Learners**: 13.2% — 27 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,816
- **Federal share**: $1,236
- **State + local share**: $13,580
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 204
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,901,600
- **Federal share**: 9.2%
- **State share**: 23.2%
- **Local share**: 67.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,895,673

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $133,000
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,480
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.3 miles (WATKINS JOHNSON CO STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.38 miles (POGONIP FARM AND GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA CRUZ WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.20139 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **De Laveaga Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 10.9% (this school: 17.9%)
- **Soquel High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.9%)
- **Ocean Alternative Education Center** — 1.4 mi away, 4.3% (this school: 17.9%)
- **Green Acres Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 17.5% (this school: 17.9%)
- **Tierra Pacifica Charter** — 1.5 mi away, 11% (this school: 17.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **De Laveaga Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66.2% (this school: 40.75%)
- **Soquel High** — 1.3 mi away, 63.7% (this school: 40.75%)
- **Ocean Alternative Education Center** — 1.4 mi away, 43.1% (this school: 40.75%)
- **Green Acres Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 65.35% (this school: 40.75%)
- **Tierra Pacifica Charter** — 1.5 mi away, 58.1% (this school: 40.75%)

### math proficiency
- **De Laveaga Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Green Acres Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Soquel Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Branciforte Middle** — 2.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Gault Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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

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