# Joshua Circle Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060001409074`
- **School name**: Joshua Circle Elementary
- **Location**: Hesperia, CA 92345
- **Address**: 10140 8th Ave.
- **District**: Hesperia Unified (LEAID `0600014`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.43488, -117.31653
- **Phone**: (760)244-6133
- **Website**: https://www.joshuacircleelementary.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 643
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 26.9% proficient — 355 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 42.1% (317 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.4% (241 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.1% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.1% (28 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**: 82.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 5.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 86 students
- **English Learners**: 30.9% — 212 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $38,488
- **Federal share**: $5,904
- **State + local share**: $32,584
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 687
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,617,928
- **Federal share**: 15.9%
- **State share**: 73.1%
- **Local share**: 11.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,473,099

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,368
- **Poverty rate**: 11.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.7%
- **Unemployment**: 14.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,080
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.7 miles (GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.01 miles (FORMER NUWAY DRY CLEANING SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HESPERIA WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.08853 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Hesperia Junior High** — 0.5 mi away, 24.8% (this school: 42.1%)
- **Cypress School of the Arts** — 0.5 mi away, 22.5% (this school: 42.1%)
- **Shadow Ridge** — 0.7 mi away, 20.4% (this school: 42.1%)
- **Mojave High** — 1.1 mi away, 4.39% (this school: 42.1%)
- **Mesa Grande Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 37.4% (this school: 42.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Hesperia Junior High** — 0.5 mi away, 35.05% (this school: 32.45%)
- **Cypress School of the Arts** — 0.5 mi away, 37.75% (this school: 32.45%)
- **Shadow Ridge** — 0.7 mi away, 36.9% (this school: 32.45%)
- **Pathways to College K8** — 1.3 mi away, 39.1% (this school: 32.45%)
- **Hesperia High** — 1.8 mi away, 49.85% (this school: 32.45%)

### math proficiency
- **LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Mountain View Montessori Charter** — 3.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Mesquite Trails Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Endeavour School of Exploration** — 3.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Krystal School of Science Math & Technology** — 4.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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