# Niemes (John H.) Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060162000023`
- **School name**: Niemes (John H.) Elementary
- **Location**: Artesia, CA 90701
- **Address**: 16715 Jersey Ave.
- **District**: ABC Unified (LEAID `0601620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.87910, -118.08640
- **Phone**: (562)229-7890
- **Website**: https://www.niemeses.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 631
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.8% proficient — 341 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 12.1% (80 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.2% (67 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**: 79.3%
- **Black/African American**: 7.9%
- **Asian**: 5.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.0% — 78 students
- **English Learners**: 32.3% — 209 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 29 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,003
- **Federal share**: $2,343
- **State + local share**: $16,660
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 648
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,956,800
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 68.2%
- **Local share**: 22.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,513,526

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $109,375
- **Poverty rate**: 9.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.9%
- **Unemployment**: 9.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,833
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (WASTE DISPOSAL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 151
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.18 miles (OAK STREET PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: STAY A WHILE RV PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-26

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Arturo Sanchez Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 12.1%)
- **Gahr (Richard) High** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.1%)
- **Tracy (Wilbur) High (Continuation)** — 0.9 mi away, 0.93% (this school: 12.1%)
- **ABC Secondary (Alternative)** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 12.1%)
- **Kennedy (John F.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 12.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Arturo Sanchez Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 42% (this school: 41.9%)
- **ABC Virtual Academy** — 0.6 mi away, 54.25% (this school: 41.9%)
- **Gahr (Richard) High** — 0.6 mi away, 73% (this school: 41.9%)
- **Burbank (Luther) Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 50.85% (this school: 41.9%)
- **Ross (Faye) Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 50% (this school: 41.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Gahr (Richard) High** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Carver (Charles J.) Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Nixon (Patricia) Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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