# Bess Maxwell Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061077001191`
- **School name**: Bess Maxwell Elementary
- **Location**: Crescent City, CA 95531
- **Address**: 1124 El Dorado St.
- **District**: Del Norte County Unified (LEAID `0610770`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 41.76700, -124.21010
- **Phone**: (707)464-0310
- **Website**: https://www.bmelementary.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 217
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 20.5% proficient — 100 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 32.4% (80 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 69.9% (172 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.3% (17 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 18.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 20.9%
- **Black/African American**: 9.1%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 45.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 5.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.8% — 53 students
- **English Learners**: 10.3% — 24 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,590
- **Federal share**: $3,016
- **State + local share**: $20,574
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 232
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,335,995
- **Federal share**: 14.8%
- **State share**: 60.2%
- **Local share**: 25.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,262,693

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $59,549
- **Poverty rate**: 9.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,625
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 52.9 miles (COPPER BLUFF MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.21 miles (DUTTON HOOSHNAM MILL SITE)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Castle Rock** — 0.1 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 32.4%)
- **Del Norte High** — 0.2 mi away, 4.33% (this school: 32.4%)
- **Mary Peacock Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 26.9% (this school: 32.4%)
- **Uncharted Shores Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 1% (this school: 32.4%)
- **Sunset High** — 4.2 mi away, 6.93% (this school: 32.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Castle Rock** — 0.1 mi away, 36.8% (this school: 20.25%)
- **Del Norte High** — 0.2 mi away, 53.55% (this school: 20.25%)
- **Mary Peacock Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 37.65% (this school: 20.25%)
- **Crescent Elk Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 36% (this school: 20.25%)
- **Joe Hamilton Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 25.85% (this school: 20.25%)

### math proficiency
- **Del Norte High** — 0.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Mary Peacock Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Crescent Elk Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Uncharted Shores Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Pine Grove Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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