# Daniel N. Buchanan Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060002910354`
- **School name**: Daniel N. Buchanan Elementary
- **Location**: Murrieta, CA 92563
- **Address**: 40121 Torrey Pines Rd.
- **District**: Murrieta Valley Unified (LEAID `0600029`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.54760, -117.15990
- **Phone**: (951)696-1428
- **Website**: https://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/buchanan

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 828
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.8% proficient — 384 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.8% (169 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.7% (110 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (9 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 43.5%
- **Black/African American**: 9.5%
- **Asian**: 3.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 30.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 11.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.6% — 157 students
- **English Learners**: 11.0% — 93 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 54 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,328
- **Federal share**: $1,231
- **State + local share**: $15,097
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 843
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,358,154
- **Federal share**: 9.3%
- **State share**: 57.2%
- **Local share**: 33.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,723,940

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $108,676
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.7%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,921
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.6 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.22 miles (FORMER LAKESIDE CHEVROLET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: INDIAN OAKS TRAILER PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 43
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 43
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10492 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ysabel Barnett Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 16% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Chaparral High** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.8%)
- **MethodSchools** — 1.5 mi away, 9.5% (this school: 18.8%)
- **James L. Day Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 17.7% (this school: 18.8%)
- **Nicolas Valley Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 13.7% (this school: 18.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ysabel Barnett Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 59.65% (this school: 57.4%)
- **Warm Springs Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 59.55% (this school: 57.4%)
- **Chaparral High** — 1.0 mi away, 64.8% (this school: 57.4%)
- **Alta Murrieta Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 60.1% (this school: 57.4%)
- **James L. Day Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 60% (this school: 57.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Cole Canyon Elementary** — 5.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Abby Reinke Elementary** — 5.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **La Paloma Elementary** — 12.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Maie Ellis Elementary** — 12.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Fallbrook STEM Academy** — 13.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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