# Bell Gardens Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062547003789`
- **School name**: Bell Gardens Elementary
- **Location**: Bell Gardens, CA 90201
- **Address**: 5620 Quinn St.
- **District**: Montebello Unified (LEAID `0625470`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.95910, -118.16800
- **Phone**: (562)927-1223
- **Website**: https://www.montebello.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 624
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.4% proficient — 308 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 16.6% (114 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.3% (90 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.0% (20 students) [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**: 83.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.3% — 61 students
- **English Learners**: 69.7% — 459 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,258
- **Federal share**: $1,076
- **State + local share**: $13,182
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 659
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,329,038
- **Federal share**: 24.4%
- **State share**: 57.9%
- **Local share**: 17.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,895,904

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $54,766
- **Poverty rate**: 20.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 5.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,693
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.8 miles (JERVIS B WEBB CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 14
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 336
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.27 miles (BELL GARDENS CITY OF)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF BELL GARDENS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Bell Gardens Intermediate** — 0.6 mi away, 12.1% (this school: 16.6%)
- **Jaime Escalante Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 15.4% (this school: 16.6%)
- **International Studies Lrng Center at Legacy High Sch Complex** — 1.4 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 16.6%)
- **Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex** — 1.4 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 16.6%)
- **Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math at Legacy High Sch Complex** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 16.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Park Avenue Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 35.75% (this school: 30.7%)
- **Elizabeth Learning Center** — 0.9 mi away, 37.15% (this school: 30.7%)
- **Garfield Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 32.4% (this school: 30.7%)
- **Cesar E. Chavez Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 39.8% (this school: 30.7%)
- **Aspire Firestone Academy Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 41.45% (this school: 30.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Aspire Firestone Academy Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Bell Senior High** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Martha Escutia Primary Center** — 2.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Griffiths (Gordon) Middle** — 2.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Warren (Earl) High** — 2.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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

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