# Ponderosa Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ponderosa-elementary-sunnyvale/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063543006049`
- **School name**: Ponderosa Elementary
- **Location**: Sunnyvale, CA 94086
- **Address**: 804 Ponderosa Ave.
- **District**: Santa Clara Unified (LEAID `0635430`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.36240, -122.00840
- **Phone**: (408)423-4000
- **Website**: http://ponderosa.santaclarausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 524
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 28.4%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.1% proficient — 232 tested

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.4% (73 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.8% (26 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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 26.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.3% — 99 students
- **English Learners**: 40.5% — 208 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,520
- **Federal share**: $790
- **State + local share**: $28,730
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 513
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,522,669
- **Federal share**: 4.9%
- **State share**: 13.2%
- **Local share**: 81.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,473,410

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $214,583
- **Poverty rate**: 8.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 76.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,221
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.0 miles (NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 182
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.70 miles (3275 WILLIAMS ROAD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SUNNYVALE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.98235 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **New Valley Continuation High** — 0.8 mi away, 1.91% (this school: 13.4%)
- **Marian A. Peterson Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 7% (this school: 13.4%)
- **Adrian Wilcox High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.18% (this school: 13.4%)
- **Fremont High** — 1.6 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 13.4%)
- **Louis E. Stocklmeir Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 9.2% (this school: 13.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Braly Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 67% (this school: 56.1%)
- **Marian A. Peterson Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 70.2% (this school: 56.1%)
- **Ellis Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 67% (this school: 56.1%)
- **Adrian Wilcox High** — 1.2 mi away, 60.7% (this school: 56.1%)
- **Laurelwood Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 68.8% (this school: 56.1%)

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