# Cottonwood Creek Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064116011824`
- **School name**: Cottonwood Creek Elementary
- **Location**: Visalia, CA 93277
- **Address**: 4222 South Dans St.
- **District**: Visalia Unified (LEAID `0641160`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 36.29205, -119.32512
- **Phone**: (559)735-3539
- **Website**: https://www.vusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 627
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 26
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.3% proficient — 331 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.7% (130 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.8% (98 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (5 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.2% — 78 students
- **English Learners**: 9.2% — 59 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,137
- **Federal share**: $2,473
- **State + local share**: $14,664
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 639
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,541,885
- **Federal share**: 12.9%
- **State share**: 69.0%
- **Local share**: 18.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,759,584

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $99,417
- **Poverty rate**: 4.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,696
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.9 miles (SELMA PRESSURE TREATING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.09 miles (ABOVE AND BEYOND)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BOB WILEY DETENTION FACILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.1006 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Linwood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 18.4% (this school: 19.7%)
- **La Joya Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 12.5% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Tulare County Court** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.7%)
- **Valley Life Charter** — 1.5 mi away, 6.5% (this school: 19.7%)
- **El Diamante High** — 1.6 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 19.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Linwood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 58.5% (this school: 55.65%)
- **El Diamante High** — 1.6 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 55.65%)
- **Visalia Technical Early College** — 1.6 mi away, 69.3% (this school: 55.65%)
- **Visalia Charter Independent Study** — 2.2 mi away, 59.6% (this school: 55.65%)
- **University Preparatory High** — 2.3 mi away, 67.2% (this school: 55.65%)

### math proficiency
- **Linwood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **University Preparatory High** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Denton Elementary** — 4.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Shannon Ranch Elementary** — 4.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Ridgeview Middle** — 4.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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

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