# South Fork Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/south-fork-elementary-weldon

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063747006331`
- **School name**: South Fork Elementary
- **Location**: Weldon, CA 93283
- **Address**: 5225 Kelso Valley Rd.
- **District**: South Fork Union (LEAID `0637470`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 35.64684, -118.27473
- **Phone**: (760)378-4000
- **Website**: https://www.southforkschool.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 348
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.9% proficient — 219 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.7% (73 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.7% (31 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (3 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**: 77.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.4% — 32 students
- **English Learners**: 2.4% — 8 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,481
- **Federal share**: $2,893
- **State + local share**: $10,588
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 340
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,951,890
- **Federal share**: 15.6%
- **State share**: 66.5%
- **Local share**: 18.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,546,392

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $40,423
- **Poverty rate**: 24.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.2%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,091
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 43.5 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 43.15 miles (2421 HALEY STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TRADEWIND WATER ASSOC.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 33
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Kern Valley High** — 11.0 mi away, 4.34% (this school: 19.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Kern Valley High** — 11.0 mi away, 41.55% (this school: 39.95%)
- **Kernville Elementary** — 11.1 mi away, 42.25% (this school: 39.95%)

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