# Sparks Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sparks-elementary-la-puente

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061632502063`
- **School name**: Sparks Elementary
- **Location**: La Puente, CA 91744
- **Address**: 15151 East Temple Ave.
- **District**: Hacienda la Puente Unified (LEAID `0616325`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.03480, -117.95930
- **Phone**: (626)933-5100
- **Website**: https://sparks.hlpschools.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 361
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.7% proficient — 232 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.2% (99 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.1% (31 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**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 94.1%
- **Black/African American**: 4.5%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.0% — 47 students
- **English Learners**: 35.0% — 149 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,529
- **Federal share**: $1,638
- **State + local share**: $16,891
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 426
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,254,242
- **Federal share**: 13.5%
- **State share**: 68.2%
- **Local share**: 18.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,697,566

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,154
- **Poverty rate**: 15.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,702
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 4)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 11
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 112
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.66 miles (WEST COVINA SPORTSPLEX SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LA PUENTE VALLEY CWD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **La Puente High** — 0.7 mi away, 1.73% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Sunset Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 18.5% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Fairgrove Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 21.4% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Lassalette** — 0.9 mi away, 16.2% (this school: 22.2%)
- **William Workman High** — 1.4 mi away, 1.29% (this school: 22.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sparks Middle** — 0.2 mi away, 28.25% (this school: 27.35%)
- **California Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 43% (this school: 27.35%)
- **La Puente High** — 0.7 mi away, 32.9% (this school: 27.35%)
- **Sierra Vista Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 41.1% (this school: 27.35%)
- **Sunset Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38.8% (this school: 27.35%)

### math proficiency
- **Fairgrove Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Del Valle Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **San Jose Charter Academy** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Edgewood Middle** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Wescove Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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