# Christopher Dena Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/christopher-dena-elementary-los-angeles

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271002945`
- **School name**: Christopher Dena Elementary
- **Location**: Los Angeles, CA 90023
- **Address**: 1314 Dacotah St.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.02207, -118.21124
- **Phone**: (323)269-9222
- **Website**: https://christopheres.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 313
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.9%

## 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)**: 40.6% proficient — 207 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 14.0% (50 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.0% (74 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
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.1% — 51 students
- **English Learners**: 41.5% — 140 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $33,462
- **Federal share**: $6,282
- **State + local share**: $27,180
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 337
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $52,262
- **Poverty rate**: 24.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 5.4%
- **Unemployment**: 15.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,625
- **Foreign-born residents**: 49.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 32.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.5 miles (EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES VERNON)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 45
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 310
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.59 miles (SEARS CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LOS ANGELES-CITY, DEPT. OF WATER & POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1636 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High** — 0.5 mi away, 0.73% (this school: 14%)
- **Boyle Heights Sci Tech Engr and Math Magnet** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 14%)
- **Boyle Heights Continuation** — 1.1 mi away, 3.23% (this school: 14%)
- **Collegiate Charter High School of Los Angeles** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 14%)
- **Theodore Roosevelt Senior High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.86% (this school: 14%)

### ela proficiency
- **Garza (Carmen Lomas) Primary Center** — 0.4 mi away, 40.35% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High** — 0.5 mi away, 35.35% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Sunrise Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 53.9% (this school: 30.3%)
- **Extera Public School No. 2** — 0.5 mi away, 39.9% (this school: 30.3%)
- **KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory** — 0.7 mi away, 47.25% (this school: 30.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Garza (Carmen Lomas) Primary Center** — 0.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Sunrise Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Extera Public School No. 2** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Soto Street Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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