# Lucas Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060813013637`
- **School name**: Lucas Elementary
- **Location**: Ceres, CA 95307
- **Address**: 3500 Rose Ave.
- **District**: Ceres Unified (LEAID `0608130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.58559, -120.94232
- **Phone**: (209)556-1500
- **Website**: https://www.ceres.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 668
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 77.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.9% proficient — 362 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 8.3% (55 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.4% (142 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**: 92.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 0.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.0% — 33 students
- **English Learners**: 48.5% — 319 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,050
- **Federal share**: $2,054
- **State + local share**: $13,996
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 658
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,612,712
- **Federal share**: 11.1%
- **State share**: 74.5%
- **Local share**: 14.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,251,483

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,177
- **Poverty rate**: 20.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.8%
- **Unemployment**: 12.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,387
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.9 miles (MODESTO GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 39
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.52 miles (PROPOSED SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ALTERNATIVE EDUCATI)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CERES, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.09227 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Endeavor Alternative** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Whitmore Charter High** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Ceres Special Education** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Ceres High** — 1.0 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 8.3%)
- **Central Valley High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 8.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology** — 0.5 mi away, 57.75% (this school: 27.95%)
- **Whitmore Charter High** — 0.5 mi away, 47.65% (this school: 27.95%)
- **Walter White Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 31.95% (this school: 27.95%)
- **Don Pedro Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 34.7% (this school: 27.95%)
- **Cesar Chavez Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 39.2% (this school: 27.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Walter White Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Don Pedro Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Cesar Chavez Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **La Rosa Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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