# Signal Hill Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062250002757`
- **School name**: Signal Hill Elementary
- **Location**: Signal Hill, CA 90755
- **Address**: 2285 Walnut Ave.
- **District**: Long Beach Unified (LEAID `0622500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.79869, -118.17273
- **Phone**: (562)426-8170

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 599
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.4% proficient — 313 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.8% (148 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.5% (131 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.7% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (7 students) [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**: 83.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.5% — 90 students
- **English Learners**: 28.1% — 174 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 36 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,451
- **Federal share**: $4,335
- **State + local share**: $18,116
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 620
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,439,829
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 60.1%
- **Local share**: 24.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,045,934

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $81,131
- **Poverty rate**: 7.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.2%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,756
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.5 miles (DEL AMO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 118
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.32 miles (NORTH FLANK OF THE HILL SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SIGNAL HILL - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 10
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.3449 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Polytechnic High** — 1.0 mi away, 2.58% (this school: 22.8%)
- **Richard D. Browning High** — 1.1 mi away, 3.37% (this school: 22.8%)
- **Clear Passage Educational Center** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.8%)
- **Intellectual Virtues Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 22.8%)
- **We the People High** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 22.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Alvarado Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 56.2% (this school: 35.2%)
- **Jessie Nelson Academy** — 0.4 mi away, 38.45% (this school: 35.2%)
- **Polytechnic High** — 1.0 mi away, 65% (this school: 35.2%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38.9% (this school: 35.2%)
- **Intellectual Virtues Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 43.55% (this school: 35.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Polytechnic High** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Willard Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Stevenson Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Jefferson Leadership Academies** — 2.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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