# Andres and Maria Cardenas Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271012677`
- **School name**: Andres and Maria Cardenas Elementary
- **Location**: Van Nuys, CA 91405
- **Address**: 6900 Calhoun Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.19631, -118.44191
- **Phone**: (818)908-6700
- **Website**: https://cardenases.lausd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 423
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.4% proficient — 185 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 23.1% (101 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.2% (75 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.9% — 87 students
- **English Learners**: 41.3% — 164 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,759
- **Federal share**: $5,455
- **State + local share**: $24,304
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 397
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,981
- **Poverty rate**: 24.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,685
- **Foreign-born residents**: 43.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 101
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.68 miles (ROSCOE SITE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CHAMPS - Charter HS of Arts-Multimedia & Performing** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 23.1%)
- **Ararat Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 18.2% (this school: 23.1%)
- **Van Nuys Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 13.6% (this school: 23.1%)
- **Valley Charter Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 21.4% (this school: 23.1%)
- **Van Nuys Senior High** — 0.8 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 23.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **CHAMPS - Charter HS of Arts-Multimedia & Performing** — 0.3 mi away, 51.3% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Hazeltine Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 38.3% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Ararat Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 39.35% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Valley Charter Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 41.7% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Kittridge Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 36.85% (this school: 29.7%)

### math proficiency
- **CHAMPS - Charter HS of Arts-Multimedia & Performing** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Hazeltine Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ararat Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Valley Charter Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Kittridge Street Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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