# Joshua Tree Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/joshua-tree-elementary-joshua-tree

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062586003885`
- **School name**: Joshua Tree Elementary
- **Location**: Joshua Tree, CA 92252
- **Address**: 6051 Sunburst Dr.
- **District**: Morongo Unified (LEAID `0625860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.16323, -116.30967
- **Phone**: (760)366-8459

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 250
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 10
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 40.9% proficient — 132 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 33.1% (92 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.2% (60 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.7% (20 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**: 86.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.1% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 4.2% — 11 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 36 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,227
- **Federal share**: $2,712
- **State + local share**: $15,515
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 260
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,058,839
- **Federal share**: 15.6%
- **State share**: 72.7%
- **Local share**: 11.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,906,464

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $43,131
- **Poverty rate**: 24.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,068
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 53.2 miles (NORTON AIR FORCE BASE LNDFLL 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.05 miles (TWENTYNINE PALMS RESERVATION SECTION)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Friendly Hills Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 13% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Black Rock Alternative/Continuation** — 4.3 mi away, 11.72% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Yucca Mesa Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 21.7% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Onaga Elementary** — 6.2 mi away, 27.6% (this school: 33.1%)
- **Yucca Valley High** — 7.4 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 33.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Friendly Hills Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 59.1% (this school: 39.45%)
- **Yucca Mesa Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 39.85% (this school: 39.45%)
- **Yucca Valley High** — 7.4 mi away, 50.75% (this school: 39.45%)
- **Landers Elementary** — 10.0 mi away, 40.8% (this school: 39.45%)
- **Twentynine Palms High** — 13.5 mi away, 51.55% (this school: 39.45%)

### math proficiency
- **Friendly Hills Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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