# Emerson Elementary

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060474000436`
- **School name**: Emerson Elementary
- **Location**: Berkeley, CA 94705
- **Address**: 2800 Forest Ave.
- **District**: Berkeley Unified (LEAID `0604740`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.86105, -122.25040
- **Phone**: (510)644-6890

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 283
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 61.5% proficient — 133 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 13.3% (38 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.4% (26 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.5%
- **Black/African American**: 10.4%
- **Asian**: 10.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 43.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 15.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 31.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.6% — 27 students
- **English Learners**: 6.4% — 18 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,973
- **Federal share**: $820
- **State + local share**: $24,153
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 282
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,225,128
- **Federal share**: 6.4%
- **State share**: 29.0%
- **Local share**: 64.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,018,743

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $102,566
- **Poverty rate**: 20.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 77.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,049
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.7 miles (AMCO CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 49
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.27 miles (1042 48TH STREET SITE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.7826 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **John Muir Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 5.9% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Willard Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 10.9% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Chabot Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 12.7% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Peralta Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 7.1% (this school: 13.3%)
- **Berkeley Independent Study K-8** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Willard Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 72.65% (this school: 56.75%)
- **Sylvia Mendez Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 67.95% (this school: 56.75%)
- **Chabot Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 60.6% (this school: 56.75%)
- **Peralta Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 61.8% (this school: 56.75%)
- **Claremont Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 66.05% (this school: 56.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Willard Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Sylvia Mendez Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Claremont Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Sankofa United Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Berkeley High** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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