# Orange County Special Education

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/orange-county-special-education-costa-mesa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069102407991`
- **School name**: Orange County Special Education
- **Location**: Costa Mesa, CA 92628
- **Address**: 200 Kalmus Dr.
- **District**: Orange County Department of Education (LEAID `0691024`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.67316, -117.88070
- **Phone**: (714)966-4129
- **Website**: https://www.ocde.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 331
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient — 130 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 27.0% (cohort of 37)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 36)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 45.2% (84 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 42.0% (161 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (2 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**: 39.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 114.2% — 403 students
- **English Learners**: 28.3% — 100 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $140,416
- **Federal share**: $16,411
- **State + local share**: $124,005
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 353
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $181,862,547
- **Federal share**: 10.3%
- **State share**: 29.5%
- **Local share**: 60.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $27,682,219

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $107,287
- **Poverty rate**: 25.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,949
- **Foreign-born residents**: 42.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.4 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 15
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 195
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.84 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Suncoast Preparatory Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 0.1% (this school: 45.2%)
- **Sonora Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 15.2% (this school: 45.2%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 8.1% (this school: 45.2%)
- **Paularino Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 18.2% (this school: 45.2%)
- **Back Bay High** — 1.4 mi away, 8.67% (this school: 45.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sonora Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 45% (this school: 20%)
- **Monte Vista Independent Study** — 1.1 mi away, 35.75% (this school: 20%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 20%)
- **Paularino Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 48.85% (this school: 20%)
- **California Pacific Charter - San Diego** — 1.4 mi away, 37.95% (this school: 20%)

### graduation rate
- **ACCESS County Community** — 0.0 mi away, 46.3% (this school: 27%)
- **Suncoast Preparatory Academy** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 27%)
- **Monte Vista Independent Study** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 27%)
- **Back Bay High** — 1.4 mi away, 85.4% (this school: 27%)
- **California Pacific Charter - San Diego** — 1.4 mi away, 92.5% (this school: 27%)

### math proficiency
- **Sonora Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Monte Vista Independent Study** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Paularino Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **California Pacific Charter - San Diego** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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