# Valley Springs Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060687000631`
- **School name**: Valley Springs Elementary
- **Location**: Valley Springs, CA 95252
- **Address**: 240 Pine St.
- **District**: Calaveras Unified (LEAID `0606870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 38.19070, -120.83290
- **Phone**: (209)754-2141

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 383
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient — 165 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 32.9% (142 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.4% (97 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.5% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.5% (18 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.9%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 63.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.9%
- **Two or more races**: 4.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 44.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 62 students
- **English Learners**: 6.3% — 25 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,110
- **Federal share**: $2,016
- **State + local share**: $14,094
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 397
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,257,533
- **Federal share**: 15.9%
- **State share**: 25.2%
- **Local share**: 58.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,887,877

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $84,854
- **Poverty rate**: 10.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,358
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.5 miles (ARGONAUT MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.87 miles (ORO DE AMADOR)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CAMANCHE NORTH SHORE INC.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.52484 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jenny Lind Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 15.6% (this school: 32.9%)
- **Mountain Oaks** — 7.7 mi away, 3.3% (this school: 32.9%)
- **Calaveras River Academy** — 7.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 32.9%)
- **Calaveras High** — 8.1 mi away, 1.34% (this school: 32.9%)
- **Gold Strike High** — 8.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 32.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Mountain Oaks** — 7.7 mi away, 39.5% (this school: 38%)
- **Mokelumne Hill Elementary** — 10.5 mi away, 40% (this school: 38%)
- **Jackson Junior High** — 11.6 mi away, 39.3% (this school: 38%)
- **Argonaut High** — 11.6 mi away, 61.75% (this school: 38%)
- **Amador High** — 14.4 mi away, 54.05% (this school: 38%)

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