# Custer Elem

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/custer-elem-custer

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530285000459`
- **School name**: Custer Elem
- **Location**: Custer, WA 98240
- **Address**: 7660 Custer School Road
- **District**: Ferndale School District (LEAID `5302850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 48.91910, -122.63720
- **Phone**: (360)383-9500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 392
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 4
  - proficiency_math_decile: 7
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 5.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 2
  - growth_math_decile: 6
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 4
  - el_progress_decile: 7
  - regularattendance_decile: 5
  - sqss_combined_decile: 5
  - _2025_score: 4.8
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 31.7% (93 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 22.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.7%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 5.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.7% — 34 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,787
- **Federal share**: $860
- **State + local share**: $19,926
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 369
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,537,972
- **Federal share**: 14.2%
- **State share**: 63.5%
- **Local share**: 22.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,680,309

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $120,886
- **Poverty rate**: 4.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,364
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.7 miles (OESER CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.86 miles (LITTLE SQUALICUM)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OLD SETTLERS WATER ASSOCIATION
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.65172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Blaine High School** — 6.8 mi away, 29.67% (this school: 31.74%)
- **Blaine Primary School** — 6.8 mi away, 17.89% (this school: 31.74%)
- **Blaine Middle School** — 6.8 mi away, 19.13% (this school: 31.74%)
- **Blaine Elementary School** — 6.9 mi away, 14.41% (this school: 31.74%)
- **Lynden Academy** — 7.3 mi away, 6.7% (this school: 31.74%)

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