# Bell Senior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271002844`
- **School name**: Bell Senior High
- **Location**: Bell, CA 90201
- **Address**: 4328 Bell Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.97425, -118.19004
- **Phone**: (323)832-4700
- **Website**: https://bellhs.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4883177 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_High_School_(California)
- **Founded**: 1925

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,088
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 100
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.6% proficient — 447 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 92.1% (cohort of 555)
- **2021**: 84.0% (cohort of 481)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.0% (381 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.7% — 264 students
- **English Learners**: 8.3% — 188 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 177 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,447
- **Federal share**: $3,865
- **State + local share**: $16,582
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,259
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,036
- **Poverty rate**: 28.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 5.2%
- **Unemployment**: 13.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,460
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (PEMACO MAYWOOD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 356
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.52 miles (RANDOLPH RAIL CORRIDOR SITE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Russell Westbrook Why Not? High** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Maywood Academy High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.21% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Odyssey Continuation** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Bell Gardens High** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math at Legacy High Sch Complex** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)

### ela proficiency
- **Russell Westbrook Why Not? High** — 0.3 mi away, 50.85% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Maywood Center for Enriched Studies** — 1.0 mi away, 59.3% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Alliance Collins Family College-Ready High** — 2.5 mi away, 59.2% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Stauffer (Mary R.) Middle** — 3.1 mi away, 58.25% (this school: 50.8%)
- **Old River Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 51.4% (this school: 50.8%)

### graduation rate
- **Maywood Center for Enriched Studies** — 1.0 mi away, 96.2% (this school: 92.1%)
- **Aspire Pacific Academy** — 2.3 mi away, 96.1% (this school: 92.1%)
- **Aspire Ollin University Preparatory Academy** — 2.4 mi away, 98.7% (this school: 92.1%)
- **Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex** — 2.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 92.1%)
- **Alliance Margaret M. Bloomfield Technology Academy High** — 2.4 mi away, 97.1% (this school: 92.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Aspire Firestone Academy Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Will Rogers Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Price (Maude) Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Sunrise Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Unsworth (Edith) Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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