# Barbara Worth Junior High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060579000520`
- **School name**: Barbara Worth Junior High
- **Location**: Brawley, CA 92227
- **Address**: 385 D St.
- **District**: Brawley Elementary (LEAID `0605790`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.98130, -115.53555
- **Phone**: (760)344-2153
- **Website**: https://www.besd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 881
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.0% proficient — 852 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 26.5% (251 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.8% (116 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 95.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.4% — 169 students
- **English Learners**: 29.0% — 266 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 68 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 12 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,747
- **Federal share**: $1,306
- **State + local share**: $9,441
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 916
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,243,342
- **Federal share**: 13.2%
- **State share**: 77.4%
- **Local share**: 9.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,821,149

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $76,613
- **Poverty rate**: 10.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.6%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $909
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.27 miles (BRAWLEY CA 542 550 MAIN ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BRAWLEY, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2021-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.75539 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Brawley Union High** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 26.5%)
- **Desert Valley High (Continuation)** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 26.5%)
- **Renaissance** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 26.5%)
- **Myron D. Witter Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 21.9% (this school: 26.5%)
- **Magnolia Union Elementary** — 6.5 mi away, 6% (this school: 26.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Brawley Union High** — 0.1 mi away, 52.8% (this school: 46.5%)
- **Myron D. Witter Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 61.65% (this school: 46.5%)
- **Frank M. Wright Middle** — 8.9 mi away, 57.25% (this school: 46.5%)
- **Imperial High** — 9.5 mi away, 61% (this school: 46.5%)
- **Ben Hulse Elementary** — 9.7 mi away, 65.95% (this school: 46.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Myron D. Witter Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Frank M. Wright Middle** — 8.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Imperial High** — 9.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ben Hulse Elementary** — 9.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Imperial Cross Elementary** — 10.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-worth-junior-high-brawley/workforce

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