# Columbia Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061191009131`
- **School name**: Columbia Elementary
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93535
- **Address**: 2640 East Avenue J-4
- **District**: Eastside Union Elementary (LEAID `0611910`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.68557, -118.08219
- **Phone**: (661)946-5656
- **Website**: https://www.columbia.eastsideusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 620
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 25.6% proficient — 354 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 47.3% (353 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.3% (231 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.4% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (13 students) [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**: 66.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 20.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 6.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 4.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 95.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 88 students
- **English Learners**: 18.7% — 127 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,040
- **Federal share**: $3,943
- **State + local share**: $16,097
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 678
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,035,520
- **Federal share**: 17.5%
- **State share**: 68.5%
- **Local share**: 14.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,972,480

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $49,495
- **Poverty rate**: 18.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.6%
- **Unemployment**: 6.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,788
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.4 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 33.87 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAND PROJECTS MUTUAL WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 108
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Eastside High** — 0.8 mi away, 0.42% (this school: 47.3%)
- **Tierra Bonita Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38.7% (this school: 47.3%)
- **Enterprise Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 46.9% (this school: 47.3%)
- **Gifford C. Cole Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 36.1% (this school: 47.3%)
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 41.7% (this school: 47.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Eastside High** — 0.8 mi away, 37.75% (this school: 25.6%)
- **Tierra Bonita Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 56.7% (this school: 25.6%)
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 32.9% (this school: 25.6%)
- **Discovery** — 1.3 mi away, 38.2% (this school: 25.6%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 1.9 mi away, 61.4% (this school: 25.6%)

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