# Turtleback Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/turtleback-elementary-san-diego

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063153010007`
- **School name**: Turtleback Elementary
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92127
- **Address**: 15855 Turtleback Rd.
- **District**: Poway Unified (LEAID `0631530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.00440, -117.08730
- **Phone**: (858)673-5514
- **Website**: https://www.powayusd.com/pusdtes

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 458
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 21.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 51.3% proficient — 238 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.9% (62 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.8% (20 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**: 20.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.0% — 80 students
- **English Learners**: 12.0% — 60 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,488
- **Federal share**: $618
- **State + local share**: $15,870
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 500
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,020,175
- **Federal share**: 6.4%
- **State share**: 39.4%
- **Local share**: 54.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,559,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $186,625
- **Poverty rate**: 2.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 82.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,617
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.5 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 9
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.80 miles (317 151 59 AND 316 120 16)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.78877 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rolling Hills Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 10.8% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Oak Valley Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 5.2% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Highland Ranch Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 10.9% (this school: 11.9%)
- **Stone Ranch Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 11.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rolling Hills Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 68.4% (this school: 51.65%)
- **Poway to Palomar Middle College High** — 1.3 mi away, 65.35% (this school: 51.65%)
- **Oak Valley Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 66.9% (this school: 51.65%)
- **Bernardo Heights Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 63.3% (this school: 51.65%)
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 1.4 mi away, 66.65% (this school: 51.65%)

### math proficiency
- **Design 39 Campus** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Los Penasquitos Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Shoal Creek Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Painted Rock Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Del Sur Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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