# Samuel Vaughn Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060813004126`
- **School name**: Samuel Vaughn Elementary
- **Location**: Ceres, CA 95307
- **Address**: 3618 Helen Perry Rd.
- **District**: Ceres Unified (LEAID `0608130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.60155, -120.92765
- **Phone**: (209)556-1690

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 570
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 24
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.2% proficient — 320 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 9.4% (57 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 47.4% (272 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 students) [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**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 69.9%
- **Black/African American**: 12.0%
- **Asian**: 1.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.8% — 51 students
- **English Learners**: 35.6% — 207 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,906
- **Federal share**: $3,322
- **State + local share**: $15,584
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 582
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,612,712
- **Federal share**: 11.1%
- **State share**: 74.5%
- **Local share**: 14.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,251,483

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,544
- **Poverty rate**: 15.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,232
- **Foreign-born residents**: 43.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.5 miles (MODESTO GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 39
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.82 miles (PROPOSED SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ALTERNATIVE EDUCATI)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CERES, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.09227 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Whitmore Charter High** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.4%)
- **Argus High (Continuation)** — 1.4 mi away, 8.7% (this school: 9.4%)
- **Endeavor Alternative** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.4%)
- **Lucas Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 8.3% (this school: 9.4%)
- **Ceres Special Education** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Cesar Chavez Junior High** — 0.6 mi away, 39.2% (this school: 38.1%)
- **La Rosa Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 42.75% (this school: 38.1%)
- **Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology** — 1.2 mi away, 57.75% (this school: 38.1%)
- **Whitmore Charter High** — 1.2 mi away, 47.65% (this school: 38.1%)
- **Virginia Parks Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 38.2% (this school: 38.1%)

### math proficiency
- **La Rosa Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Whitmore Charter School of Art & Technology** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **M. Robert Adkison Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Keyes to Learning Charter** — 3.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Hughson Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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

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