# Ness Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530969001641`
- **School name**: Ness Elementary
- **Location**: SPOKANE, WA 99206
- **Address**: 9612 E CATALDO
- **District**: West Valley School District (Spokane) (LEAID `5309690`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 1–5
- **Coordinates**: 47.66560, -117.27560
- **Phone**: (509)922-5470

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 243
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 6
  - proficiency_math_decile: 9
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 7.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 10
  - growth_math_decile: 9
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 9.5
  - el_progress_decile: 8
  - regularattendance_decile: 6
  - sqss_combined_decile: 6
  - _2025_score: 8.45
  - overall: Foundational

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.3% (55 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 5.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.4%
- **Two or more races**: 7.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 72.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.7% — 32 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,593
- **Federal share**: $955
- **State + local share**: $17,638
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 244
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,299,652
- **Federal share**: 11.7%
- **State share**: 66.2%
- **Local share**: 22.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,551,103

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $56,066
- **Poverty rate**: 18.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.9%
- **Unemployment**: 3.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,069
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.2 miles (GENERAL ELECTRIC CO SPOKANE APPARATUS SERVICE SHOP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 49
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.82 miles (JELD WEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SPOKANE CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.89555 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **West Valley City School** — 0.6 mi away, 15.88% (this school: 20.3%)
- **Spokane Valley High School** — 0.8 mi away, 4.26% (this school: 20.3%)
- **Dishman Hills High School** — 1.0 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 20.3%)
- **Centennial Middle School** — 1.1 mi away, 15.49% (this school: 20.3%)
- **Seth Woodard Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 10.68% (this school: 20.3%)

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