# Benjamin Foxen Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060528000498`
- **School name**: Benjamin Foxen Elementary
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93454
- **Address**: 4949 Foxen Canyon Rd.
- **District**: Blochman Union Elementary (LEAID `0605280`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.86661, -120.29626
- **Phone**: (805)937-1148

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 210
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 10
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.0% proficient — 128 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 6.4% (13 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (3 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 54.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 41.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.5% — 22 students
- **English Learners**: 16.1% — 31 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,129
- **Federal share**: $1,826
- **State + local share**: $14,303
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 192
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,429,379
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 52.2%
- **Local share**: 40.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,807,910

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $133,854
- **Poverty rate**: 4.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,140
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.1 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.90 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA MARIA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 6.8 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 6.4%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 7.2 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 6.4%)
- **Trivium Charter** — 8.5 mi away, 4.7% (this school: 6.4%)
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 8.7 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 6.4%)
- **Santa Maria High** — 9.5 mi away, 1.54% (this school: 6.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 7.2 mi away, 61% (this school: 57.5%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 8.1 mi away, 67.45% (this school: 57.5%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 8.2 mi away, 69.25% (this school: 57.5%)
- **Manzanita Public Charter** — 14.5 mi away, 65.7% (this school: 57.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Patterson Road Elementary** — 7.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 8.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 8.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Olga L. Reed Elementary** — 8.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Manzanita Public Charter** — 14.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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

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