# Fern Elementary

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063942006558`
- **School name**: Fern Elementary
- **Location**: Torrance, CA 90503
- **Address**: 1314 Fern Ave.
- **District**: Torrance Unified (LEAID `0639420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.83490, -118.33190
- **Phone**: (310)533-4506

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 473
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.4% proficient — 236 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 10.3% (51 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.0% (43 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (3 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**: 41.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.4% — 60 students
- **English Learners**: 15.3% — 74 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,193
- **Federal share**: $730
- **State + local share**: $15,463
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 482
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,192,478
- **Federal share**: 9.8%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,520,994

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $151,923
- **Poverty rate**: 6.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.4%
- **Unemployment**: 10.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,302
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.1 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 31
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 160
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.32 miles (DEL AMO)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Torrance High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 10.3%)
- **Madrona Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 9.8% (this school: 10.3%)
- **Gene Drevno Community Day** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.3%)
- **Shery (Kurt T.) High (Continuation)** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 10.3%)
- **Hickory Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 4.6% (this school: 10.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Torrance High** — 0.7 mi away, 66.6% (this school: 60.2%)
- **Hickory Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 64.1% (this school: 60.2%)
- **Jefferson Middle** — 1.5 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 60.2%)
- **Howard Wood Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 60.2%)
- **Joseph Arnold Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 60.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Joseph Arnold Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Seaside Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Yukon Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Lomita Math/Science/Technology Magnet** — 2.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Arlington Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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