# Van Buren Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/van-buren-elementary-placentia/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/van-buren-elementary-placentia

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063066004774`
- **School name**: Van Buren Elementary
- **Location**: Placentia, CA 92870
- **Address**: 1245 North Van Buren St.
- **District**: Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified (LEAID `0630660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.88480, -117.83260
- **Phone**: (714)986-7100

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 538
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 57.8% proficient — 301 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.2% (89 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.5% (60 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (8 students) [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**: 40.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.0% — 85 students
- **English Learners**: 8.6% — 49 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,844
- **Federal share**: $915
- **State + local share**: $16,929
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 567
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,772,456
- **Federal share**: 8.1%
- **State share**: 41.2%
- **Local share**: 50.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,976,793

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $127,375
- **Poverty rate**: 6.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 43.1%
- **Unemployment**: 8.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,209
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.0 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 127
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.64 miles (TRACKS AT BREA BIRCH SITE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Yorba Linda Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 9.5% (this school: 15.2%)
- **Rose Drive Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 5.5% (this school: 15.2%)
- **Charles Wagner Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 8.2% (this school: 15.2%)
- **Mabel M. Paine Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 12.9% (this school: 15.2%)
- **Lakeview Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 15.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Yorba Linda Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 71.05% (this school: 38.9%)
- **Rose Drive Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 73.1% (this school: 38.9%)
- **Charles Wagner Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 53.8% (this school: 38.9%)
- **Mabel M. Paine Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 72.25% (this school: 38.9%)
- **Lakeview Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66.2% (this school: 38.9%)

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