# Christine Sipherd Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061269001432`
- **School name**: Christine Sipherd Elementary
- **Location**: Modesto, CA 95355
- **Address**: 3420 East Orangeburg Ave.
- **District**: Empire Union Elementary (LEAID `0612690`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.66260, -120.93180
- **Phone**: (209)524-4844
- **Website**: http://web.empire.k12.ca.us/sipherd/sipherd.htm

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 505
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 21
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.2% proficient — 242 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 32.7% (170 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.1% (86 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 students) [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**: 51.9%
- **Black/African American**: 5.3%
- **Asian**: 3.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 33.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 62 students
- **English Learners**: 13.8% — 67 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,294
- **Federal share**: $2,740
- **State + local share**: $14,554
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 484
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,551,233
- **Federal share**: 11.2%
- **State share**: 58.5%
- **Local share**: 30.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,097,951

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $73,820
- **Poverty rate**: 9.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,603
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.5 miles (MODESTO GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 41
- **Nearest brownfield**: 16.56 miles (PROPOSED SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ALTERNATIVE EDUCATI)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.09227 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lakewood Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 8% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Daniel J. Savage Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 16.1% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Freedom Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 12.9% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Sonoma Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 20% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Bernard L. Hughes Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 21.1% (this school: 32.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Lakewood Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 59% (this school: 40.6%)
- **Daniel J. Savage Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 50.25% (this school: 40.6%)
- **Freedom Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 46.6% (this school: 40.6%)
- **Sonoma Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 51.85% (this school: 40.6%)
- **Peter Johansen High** — 1.2 mi away, 42.45% (this school: 40.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Daniel J. Savage Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Sonoma Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Orchard Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Mary Ann Sanders Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Elizabeth Ustach Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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