# Howard Wood Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063942006581`
- **School name**: Howard Wood Elementary
- **Location**: Torrance, CA 90501
- **Address**: 2250 West 235th St.
- **District**: Torrance Unified (LEAID `0639420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.81230, -118.32150
- **Phone**: (310)533-4484

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 344
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 55.0% proficient — 186 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 9.0% (35 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.8% (42 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (7 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**: 44.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.7% — 71 students
- **English Learners**: 12.7% — 48 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,871
- **Federal share**: $756
- **State + local share**: $16,115
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 379
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,192,478
- **Federal share**: 9.8%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,520,994

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $128,293
- **Poverty rate**: 5.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 53.3%
- **Unemployment**: 6.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,815
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.8 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 148
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.26 miles (KEN MALLOY HARBOR REGIONAL PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TORRANCE-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Shery (Kurt T.) High (Continuation)** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 9%)
- **Hickory Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 4.6% (this school: 9%)
- **Gene Drevno Community Day** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 9%)
- **Nathaniel Narbonne Senior High** — 1.0 mi away, 1.74% (this school: 9%)
- **Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles** — 1.0 mi away, 1.6% (this school: 9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet** — 0.8 mi away, 61.55% (this school: 60.5%)
- **Hickory Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 64.1% (this school: 60.5%)
- **Torrance High** — 1.2 mi away, 66.6% (this school: 60.5%)
- **Walteria Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 73.4% (this school: 60.5%)
- **Joseph Arnold Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 63% (this school: 60.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Walteria Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Eshelman Avenue Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Joseph Arnold Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Seaside Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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