# El Morro Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-morro-elementary-laguna-beach

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062037002453`
- **School name**: El Morro Elementary
- **Location**: Laguna Beach, CA 92651
- **Address**: 8681 North Coast Hwy.
- **District**: Laguna Beach Unified (LEAID `0620370`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.56487, -117.82418
- **Phone**: (949)497-7780
- **Website**: https://www.lbusd.org/page.cfm?p524

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 404
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 24.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 64.7% proficient — 229 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.3% (53 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.9% (59 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 24.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 43 students
- **English Learners**: 7.6% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,193
- **Federal share**: $1,064
- **State + local share**: $35,129
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 419
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,768,425
- **Federal share**: 4.6%
- **State share**: 9.4%
- **Local share**: 86.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,201,707

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $165,357
- **Poverty rate**: 2.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 61.8%
- **Unemployment**: 1.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,301
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.9 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.26 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH COAST WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 19.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Laguna Beach High** — 3.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Thurston Middle** — 3.6 mi away, 8% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Harbor View Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 6.3% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Abraham Lincoln Elementary** — 3.8 mi away, 9.4% (this school: 12.3%)
- **Roy O. Andersen Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 5.4% (this school: 12.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Newport Coast Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 75.25% (this school: 72.35%)
- **Laguna Beach High** — 3.2 mi away, 77.5% (this school: 72.35%)
- **Harbor View Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 72.45% (this school: 72.35%)
- **Roy O. Andersen Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 73.4% (this school: 72.35%)
- **Top of the World Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 72.85% (this school: 72.35%)

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