# Sierra Avenue Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/sierra-avenue-elementary-oroville

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063918006546`
- **School name**: Sierra Avenue Elementary
- **Location**: Oroville, CA 95965
- **Address**: 1050 Sierra Ave.
- **District**: Thermalito Union Elementary (LEAID `0639180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 39.50918, -121.58910
- **Phone**: (530)538-2920
- **Website**: https://www.thermalito.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 365
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 32.1% proficient — 178 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 24.9% (98 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.1% (82 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**: 86.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.2% — 33 students
- **English Learners**: 15.6% — 56 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,129
- **Federal share**: $3,540
- **State + local share**: $19,589
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 358
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,752,022
- **Federal share**: 23.2%
- **State share**: 64.1%
- **Local share**: 12.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,171,159

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,362
- **Poverty rate**: 15.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,199
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (KOPPERS CO INC OROVILLE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.96 miles (FM C R AUTO REPAIR)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SOUTH FEATHER W&P - MINERS RANCH
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Plumas Avenue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 16.3% (this school: 24.9%)
- **Poplar Avenue Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 11.6% (this school: 24.9%)
- **Heritage Community Day** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 24.9%)
- **Nelson Avenue Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 22.2% (this school: 24.9%)
- **STREAM Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 14.9% (this school: 24.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Plumas Avenue Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38.25% (this school: 26.05%)
- **Poplar Avenue Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 36.7% (this school: 26.05%)
- **Nelson Avenue Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 38.25% (this school: 26.05%)
- **STREAM Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 40.35% (this school: 26.05%)
- **Hearthstone** — 1.3 mi away, 37.7% (this school: 26.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Richvale Elementary** — 8.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Gridley High** — 11.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Bangor Union Elementary** — 12.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Durham Intermediate** — 14.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Durham Elementary** — 14.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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