# Harding Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061203001334`
- **School name**: Harding Elementary
- **Location**: El Centro, CA 92243
- **Address**: 950 South Seventh St.
- **District**: El Centro Elementary (LEAID `0612030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.78460, -115.55950
- **Phone**: (760)352-4791
- **Website**: https://www.ecesd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 601
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.8% proficient — 305 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.4% (94 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.0% (74 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**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 95.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 75 students
- **English Learners**: 35.6% — 208 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,924
- **Federal share**: $1,581
- **State + local share**: $13,343
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 585
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,601,834
- **Federal share**: 23.1%
- **State share**: 67.6%
- **Local share**: 9.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,764,425

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $54,593
- **Poverty rate**: 25.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.3%
- **Unemployment**: 8.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,014
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.7 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.41 miles (EL CENTRO DOGWOOD RD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: EL CENTRO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.17989 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Central Union High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Desert Oasis High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 10.69% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Phoenix Rising High** — 0.6 mi away, 8.33% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Kennedy Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 13.5% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Southwest High** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 15.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 0.8 mi away, 43.15% (this school: 39.8%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 42.1% (this school: 39.8%)
- **Southwest High** — 1.4 mi away, 66.35% (this school: 39.8%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 44.1% (this school: 39.8%)
- **T. L. Waggoner Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 43% (this school: 39.8%)

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