# Desert Garden Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/desert-garden-elementary-el-centro

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061203001333`
- **School name**: Desert Garden Elementary
- **Location**: El Centro, CA 92243
- **Address**: 1900 South Sixth St.
- **District**: El Centro Elementary (LEAID `0612030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 32.77680, -115.55740
- **Phone**: (760)352-2051
- **Website**: https://www.ecesd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 358
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.4% proficient — 213 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 19.3% (74 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.7% (90 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (8 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 95.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.2% — 60 students
- **English Learners**: 61.5% — 228 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,879
- **Federal share**: $1,839
- **State + local share**: $21,040
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 371
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,601,834
- **Federal share**: 23.1%
- **State share**: 67.6%
- **Local share**: 9.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,764,425

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,889
- **Poverty rate**: 15.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.6%
- **Unemployment**: 8.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,100
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.3 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.29 miles (EL CENTRO DOGWOOD RD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: EL CENTRO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.17989 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Desert Oasis High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 10.69% (this school: 19.3%)
- **Phoenix Rising High** — 0.6 mi away, 8.33% (this school: 19.3%)
- **Harding Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 15.4% (this school: 19.3%)
- **Wilson Jr. High** — 0.9 mi away, 15.7% (this school: 19.3%)
- **Central Union High** — 0.9 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 19.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Harding Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 39.8% (this school: 32.2%)
- **Central Union High** — 0.9 mi away, 38.1% (this school: 32.2%)
- **De Anza Magnet** — 1.0 mi away, 33.5% (this school: 32.2%)
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 1.3 mi away, 43.15% (this school: 32.2%)
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 32.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Southwest High** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Imperial County Special Education** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **McCabe Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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