# Christian Sorensen Science Academy

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064245006947`
- **School name**: Christian Sorensen Science Academy
- **Location**: Whittier, CA 90606
- **Address**: 11493 East Rosehedge Dr.
- **District**: Whittier City Elementary (LEAID `0642450`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.97810, -118.05990
- **Phone**: (562)789-3220
- **Website**: http://sorensen.whittiercity.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 446
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.4% proficient — 233 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 27.9% (136 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.9% (79 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.8% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (10 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**: 81.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 72 students
- **English Learners**: 12.3% — 57 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,925
- **Federal share**: $2,086
- **State + local share**: $16,839
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 463
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,487,691
- **Federal share**: 11.3%
- **State share**: 65.2%
- **Local share**: 23.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,957,053

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $113,222
- **Poverty rate**: 3.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,199
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.2 miles (OMEGA CHEMICAL CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 148
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.58 miles (BEAUMONT TRUST PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHITTIER-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Katherine Edwards Mid Sch STEAM & Dual Immersion Acad** — 0.7 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Daniel Phelan Language Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 16% (this school: 27.9%)
- **West Whittier Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 23.9% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Longfellow Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 1.42% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Whittier High** — 0.9 mi away, 0.82% (this school: 27.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Daniel Phelan Language Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 47% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Whittier High** — 0.9 mi away, 54.55% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Walter F. Dexter Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 37.65% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Ada S. Nelson Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 44.95% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Pioneer High** — 1.2 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 32.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Daniel Phelan Language Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Whittier High** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Walter F. Dexter Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Whittier Independent Study** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Ada S. Nelson Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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