# Walter Hays Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/walter-hays-elementary-palo-alto

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062961004588`
- **School name**: Walter Hays Elementary
- **Location**: Palo Alto, CA 94301
- **Address**: 1525 Middlefield Rd.
- **District**: Palo Alto Unified (LEAID `0629610`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.44302, -122.14326
- **Phone**: (650)322-5956

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 305
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 17.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 69.0% proficient — 131 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.4% (41 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.1% (8 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**: 15.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.2% — 39 students
- **English Learners**: 19.7% — 58 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,130
- **Federal share**: $947
- **State + local share**: $29,183
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 295
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,940,717
- **Federal share**: 2.8%
- **State share**: 11.1%
- **Local share**: 86.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,242,839

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $250,001
- **Poverty rate**: 1.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 87.6%
- **Unemployment**: 1.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.5 miles (HEWLETT PACKARD 620 640 PAGE MILL ROAD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 56
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.07 miles (PALO MOBILE ESTATES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PALO ALTO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.31055 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Addison Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 11.7% (this school: 13.4%)
- **Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 10.2% (this school: 13.4%)
- **Palo Alto High** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.4%)
- **Ohlone Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 7% (this school: 13.4%)
- **El Carmelo Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 7% (this school: 13.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Duveneck Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 74.5%)
- **Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 75.9% (this school: 74.5%)
- **Lucille M. Nixon Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 78.65% (this school: 74.5%)
- **Menlo-Atherton High** — 2.1 mi away, 74.55% (this school: 74.5%)
- **Herbert Hoover Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 79.1% (this school: 74.5%)

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