# Top of the World Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/top-of-the-world-elementary-laguna-beach/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/top-of-the-world-elementary-laguna-beach

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062037002456`
- **School name**: Top of the World Elementary
- **Location**: Laguna Beach, CA 92651
- **Address**: 21601 Tree Top Ln.
- **District**: Laguna Beach Unified (LEAID `0620370`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.54609, -117.75241
- **Phone**: (949)497-7790

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 536
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 16.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 65.7% proficient — 277 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 6.2% (35 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.5% (28 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**: 14.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.3% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 2.2% — 12 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 35 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,906
- **Federal share**: $961
- **State + local share**: $30,945
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 552
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,768,425
- **Federal share**: 4.6%
- **State share**: 9.4%
- **Local share**: 86.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,201,707

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $150,129
- **Poverty rate**: 4.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.4%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,542
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.2 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.14 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Laguna Beach High** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.2%)
- **Aliso Niguel High** — 2.2 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 6.2%)
- **Journey** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.2%)
- **Laguna Hills High** — 4.3 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 6.2%)
- **Capistrano Valley High** — 4.8 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 6.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Laguna Beach High** — 1.4 mi away, 77.5% (this school: 72.85%)
- **Canyon Vista Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 74% (this school: 72.85%)
- **Don Juan Avila Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 72.85%)
- **Laguna Niguel Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 74.2% (this school: 72.85%)
- **Dana Hills High** — 5.6 mi away, 73.95% (this school: 72.85%)

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