# CALIFORNIA AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362928003938`
- **School name**: CALIFORNIA AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: UNIONDALE, NY 11553
- **Address**: 236 CALIFORNIA AVE
- **District**: UNIONDALE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3629280`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.71080, -73.59920
- **Phone**: (516)918-1851

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 730
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 59
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 3
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.9% (265 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.1% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 13.5% (96 students) [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**: 69.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 28.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 63.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 100 students
- **English Learners**: 43.2% — 307 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 37 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,858
- **Federal share**: $1,522
- **State + local share**: $28,336
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 701
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $37,828,741
- **Federal share**: 11.1%
- **State share**: 32.6%
- **Local share**: 56.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $23,147,151

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,088
- **Poverty rate**: 15.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.8%
- **Unemployment**: 9.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,219
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.9 miles (OLD ROOSEVELT FIELD CONTAMINATED GW AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 41
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.82 miles (CIRCULO SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TOWER OAKS SHOPPING CENTER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **UNIONDALE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 2.79% (this school: 3.1%)
- **WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 2.98% (this school: 3.1%)
- **NORTHERN PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 3.1%)
- **ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNIONDALE** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.1%)
- **LOCUST SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **JACKSON MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 26%)
- **WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 45% (this school: 26%)
- **NORTHERN PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 30% (this school: 26%)
- **ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNIONDALE** — 1.1 mi away, 64% (this school: 26%)
- **BARNUM WOODS SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 75% (this school: 26%)

### math proficiency
- **JACKSON MAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 59% (this school: 39%)
- **WALNUT STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 57% (this school: 39%)
- **NORTHERN PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 42% (this school: 39%)
- **ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNIONDALE** — 1.1 mi away, 74.5% (this school: 39%)
- **TURTLE HOOK MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 62.2% (this school: 39%)

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