# Dow's Prairie Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/dow-s-prairie-elementary-mckinleyville

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062430003650`
- **School name**: Dow's Prairie Elementary
- **Location**: McKinleyville, CA 95519
- **Address**: 3940 Dows Prairie Rd.
- **District**: McKinleyville Union Elementary (LEAID `0624300`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–2
- **Coordinates**: 40.97697, -124.09651
- **Phone**: (707)839-1558
- **Website**: https://mckusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 283
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 64.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 40.9% proficient — 85 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 32.2% (102 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (8 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 62.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.7% — 53 students
- **English Learners**: 3.8% — 12 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 33 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,045
- **Federal share**: $2,084
- **State + local share**: $14,961
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 317
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,003,209
- **Federal share**: 18.5%
- **State share**: 37.4%
- **Local share**: 44.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,879,144

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $66,069
- **Poverty rate**: 10.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,242
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.3 miles (COPPER BLUFF MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.85 miles (508 242 012)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCKINLEYVILLE C.S.D.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.53802 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **McKinleyville High** — 1.6 mi away, 0.55% (this school: 32.2%)
- **Mad River High (Continuation)** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 32.2%)
- **Morris Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 25.4% (this school: 32.2%)
- **Fieldbrook Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 10.7% (this school: 32.2%)
- **Laurel Tree Charter** — 5.4 mi away, 27.7% (this school: 32.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Morris Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 41.4% (this school: 39.45%)
- **Fieldbrook Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 60.85% (this school: 39.45%)
- **Laurel Tree Charter** — 5.4 mi away, 39.75% (this school: 39.45%)
- **Pacific Union Elementary** — 5.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 39.45%)
- **Trinidad Union** — 6.3 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 39.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Morris Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Fieldbrook Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Pacific Union Elementary** — 5.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Trinidad Union** — 6.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Fuente Nueva Charter** — 6.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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