# Margaret Hedrick Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061203001335`
- **School name**: Margaret Hedrick Elementary
- **Location**: El Centro, CA 92243
- **Address**: 550 South Waterman Ave.
- **District**: El Centro Elementary (LEAID `0612030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.78810, -115.57480
- **Phone**: (760)352-4750
- **Website**: https://www.ecesd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 446
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.5% proficient — 254 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.0% (101 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.3% (97 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (6 students) [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**: 95.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 47 students
- **English Learners**: 42.4% — 195 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,643
- **Federal share**: $1,674
- **State + local share**: $16,969
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 460
### 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**: $62,440
- **Poverty rate**: 19.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,061
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.6 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.33 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**: 0.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 0.3 mi away, 17.6% (this school: 21%)
- **Wilson Jr. High** — 0.4 mi away, 15.7% (this school: 21%)
- **Central Union High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 21%)
- **Imperial Valley Home School Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 21%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 15.6% (this school: 21%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 0.3 mi away, 43.15% (this school: 27.75%)
- **Wilson Jr. High** — 0.4 mi away, 30.55% (this school: 27.75%)
- **Central Union High** — 0.6 mi away, 38.1% (this school: 27.75%)
- **Imperial Valley Home School Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 34.5% (this school: 27.75%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 44.1% (this school: 27.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Southwest High** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **T. L. Waggoner Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Imperial County Special Education** — 2.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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