# Paradise Canyon Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paradise-canyon-elementary-la-canada/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paradise-canyon-elementary-la-canada

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062013002409`
- **School name**: Paradise Canyon Elementary
- **Location**: La Canada, CA 91011
- **Address**: 471 Knight Way
- **District**: La Canada Unified (LEAID `0620130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.20876, -118.18774
- **Phone**: (818)952-8340
- **Website**: https://www.pcycougars.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 715
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 4.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 67.7% proficient — 401 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 4.9% (33 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (4 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 4.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.9% — 59 students
- **English Learners**: 3.6% — 24 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,151
- **Federal share**: $191
- **State + local share**: $16,960
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 661
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,955,879
- **Federal share**: 5.5%
- **State share**: 36.0%
- **Local share**: 58.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,615,404

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $229,276
- **Poverty rate**: 2.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 76.8%
- **Unemployment**: 7.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.40 miles (7053 FIGUEROA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LA CANADA IRRIGATION DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **La Canada Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 3.1% (this school: 4.9%)
- **La Canada High** — 1.2 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 4.9%)
- **Palm Crest Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 4.1% (this school: 4.9%)
- **John Muir High** — 2.6 mi away, 2.03% (this school: 4.9%)
- **Monte Vista Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 4.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **La Canada High** — 1.2 mi away, 79% (this school: 73.85%)
- **Palm Crest Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 78.95% (this school: 73.85%)
- **Anderson W. Clark Magnet High** — 4.3 mi away, 79.4% (this school: 73.85%)
- **South Pasadena Senior High** — 7.1 mi away, 79.85% (this school: 73.85%)
- **Marengo Elementary** — 7.3 mi away, 77.2% (this school: 73.85%)

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