# Ruus Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061674002129`
- **School name**: Ruus Elementary
- **Location**: Hayward, CA 94540
- **Address**: 28027 Dickens Ave.
- **District**: Hayward Unified (LEAID `0616740`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.62712, -122.07440
- **Phone**: (510)723-3885

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 361
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.9% proficient — 196 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 28.6% (116 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.7% (72 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.4% (13 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 61.4%
- **Black/African American**: 22.1%
- **Asian**: 5.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 5.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.4% — 48 students
- **English Learners**: 47.0% — 182 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,587
- **Federal share**: $3,279
- **State + local share**: $21,308
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 387
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,897,206
- **Federal share**: 12.1%
- **State share**: 52.2%
- **Local share**: 35.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,093,721

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $107,500
- **Poverty rate**: 8.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.5%
- **Unemployment**: 8.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,843
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.6 miles (SOUTH BAY ASBESTOS AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 74
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.61 miles (KMART)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.17981 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Palma Ceia Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 25% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Leadership Public Schools - Hayward** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Tyrrell Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 22.3% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Cesar Chavez Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 22.4% (this school: 28.6%)
- **Mt. Eden High** — 0.9 mi away, 1.27% (this school: 28.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palma Ceia Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 30.5% (this school: 27.95%)
- **Leadership Public Schools - Hayward** — 0.7 mi away, 46.4% (this school: 27.95%)
- **Cesar Chavez Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 29.3% (this school: 27.95%)
- **Mt. Eden High** — 0.9 mi away, 45.75% (this school: 27.95%)
- **Eldridge Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 28.05% (this school: 27.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Leadership Public Schools - Hayward** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Cesar Chavez Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mt. Eden High** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Eldridge Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Martin Luther King Jr. Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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