# Rice (William) Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rice-william-elementary-santa-maria

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060558009321`
- **School name**: Rice (William) Elementary
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93454
- **Address**: 700 East Vickie Ave.
- **District**: Santa Maria-Bonita (LEAID `0605580`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 34.96680, -120.42730
- **Phone**: (805)361-7740

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 887
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 29.9% proficient — 465 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.1% (173 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.8% (67 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.2% (29 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 93.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 0.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.6% — 60 students
- **English Learners**: 45.8% — 418 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,075
- **Federal share**: $2,455
- **State + local share**: $9,620
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 913
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,810,429
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 68.7%
- **Local share**: 19.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,684,230

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,836
- **Poverty rate**: 20.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,658
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.8 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.06 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA MARIA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Alvin Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 9.8% (this school: 18.1%)
- **Tunnell (Martin Luther) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 14% (this school: 18.1%)
- **El Camino Junior High** — 0.8 mi away, 10% (this school: 18.1%)
- **Fesler (Isaac) Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 17.5% (this school: 18.1%)
- **Bruce (Robert) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 10.6% (this school: 18.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Alvin Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 25.05% (this school: 24.95%)
- **Taylor (Ida Redmond) Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 35.2% (this school: 24.95%)
- **Tunnell (Martin Luther) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 35.65% (this school: 24.95%)
- **El Camino Junior High** — 0.8 mi away, 25.15% (this school: 24.95%)
- **Fesler (Isaac) Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 25.1% (this school: 24.95%)

### math proficiency
- **Taylor (Ida Redmond) Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Tunnell (Martin Luther) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Kunst (Tommie) Junior High** — 1.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Miller (Isaac) Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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