# Columbia Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/columbia-elementary-el-monte

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061209001347`
- **School name**: Columbia Elementary
- **Location**: El Monte, CA 91731
- **Address**: 3400 North California
- **District**: El Monte City (LEAID `0612090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.07150, -118.03350
- **Phone**: (626)575-2306

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 706
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.4%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.8% proficient — 525 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.3% (98 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.3% (80 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (14 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 86.5%
- **Black/African American**: 9.9%
- **Asian**: 0.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.1% — 65 students
- **English Learners**: 30.6% — 218 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 47 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,308
- **Federal share**: $5,580
- **State + local share**: $19,728
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 713
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $24,140,752
- **Federal share**: 13.8%
- **State share**: 61.0%
- **Local share**: 25.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,519,625

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,655
- **Poverty rate**: 14.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,464
- **Foreign-born residents**: 47.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.2 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 121
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.81 miles (KINNELOA AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN GABRIEL VALLEY WATER CO.-EL MONTE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **El Monte High** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Legore Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 12.5% (this school: 13.3%)
- **New Lexington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Wilkerson Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Rio Vista Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 6.7% (this school: 13.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rio Vista Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 49.7% (this school: 45.8%)
- **Gidley Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 52.3% (this school: 45.8%)
- **Mountain View High** — 1.8 mi away, 61.2% (this school: 45.8%)
- **De Anza Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 55.75% (this school: 45.8%)
- **La Rosa Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 57.9% (this school: 45.8%)

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