# Discovery Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/discovery-elementary-bakersfield/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/discovery-elementary-bakersfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061470010222`
- **School name**: Discovery Elementary
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93308
- **Address**: 7500 Vaquero Ave.
- **District**: Fruitvale Elementary (LEAID `0614700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.40020, -119.08640
- **Phone**: (661)589-7336
- **Website**: http://discovery.fruitvale.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 706
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 66.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.4% proficient — 415 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.5% (89 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.9% (70 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (6 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 42.9%
- **Black/African American**: 9.3%
- **Asian**: 4.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 41.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.3% — 118 students
- **English Learners**: 6.8% — 49 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 20 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,228
- **Federal share**: $1,031
- **State + local share**: $15,197
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 722
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,642,834
- **Federal share**: 10.9%
- **State share**: 64.5%
- **Local share**: 24.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,770,486

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $81,286
- **Poverty rate**: 12.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,717
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.2 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 25
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.78 miles (PROPOSED VALLEY OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSION)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.9442 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Centennial High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.09% (this school: 11.5%)
- **William B. Bimat Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 9.9% (this school: 11.5%)
- **Olive Drive Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 8.3% (this school: 11.5%)
- **Vista West Continuation High** — 1.2 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 11.5%)
- **Endeavour Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 10.2% (this school: 11.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Veterans Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 66.95% (this school: 65.2%)
- **Stockdale Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 66.7% (this school: 65.2%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 68.45% (this school: 65.2%)
- **Highgate Elementary** — 5.6 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 65.2%)
- **Earl Warren Junior High** — 6.3 mi away, 70.4% (this school: 65.2%)

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