# Gardner Elementary

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/gardner-elementary-san-jose

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063459005713`
- **School name**: Gardner Elementary
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95125
- **Address**: 502 Illinois Ave.
- **District**: San Jose Unified (LEAID `0634590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.32133, -121.89578
- **Phone**: (408)535-6225

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 385
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 20
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 33.9% proficient — 169 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 33.0% (140 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.4% (77 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (4 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**: 74.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.3% — 33 students
- **English Learners**: 39.0% — 155 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,101
- **Federal share**: $786
- **State + local share**: $20,315
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 397
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,727,655
- **Federal share**: 8.7%
- **State share**: 23.6%
- **Local share**: 67.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,538,692

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $138,750
- **Poverty rate**: 7.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,316
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.7 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 104
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.50 miles (830 AUZERAIS STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.98235 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 22.8% (this school: 33%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 30.1% (this school: 33%)
- **River Glen** — 0.8 mi away, 11.4% (this school: 33%)
- **Rocketship Alma Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 15.5% (this school: 33%)
- **Willow Glen Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 20.6% (this school: 33%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 31.9% (this school: 26.95%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 29.4% (this school: 26.95%)
- **River Glen** — 0.8 mi away, 58.65% (this school: 26.95%)
- **Rocketship Alma Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 30.45% (this school: 26.95%)
- **Willow Glen Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 45.45% (this school: 26.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **River Glen** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Rocketship Alma Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Willow Glen Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Hammer Montessori at Galarza Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)

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