# Reginald M. Benton Middle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062769002165`
- **School name**: Reginald M. Benton Middle
- **Location**: La Mirada, CA 90638
- **Address**: 15709 East Olive Branch Rd.
- **District**: Norwalk-La Mirada Unified (LEAID `0627690`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.91370, -117.99590
- **Phone**: (562)210-2500
- **Website**: https://www.bentonms.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 718
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.5% proficient — 669 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.8% (116 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.1% (27 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (7 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**: 54.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.5% — 61 students
- **English Learners**: 3.9% — 28 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,476
- **Federal share**: $1,201
- **State + local share**: $15,275
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 714
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,488,769
- **Federal share**: 10.1%
- **State share**: 65.5%
- **Local share**: 24.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,225,067

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $144,191
- **Poverty rate**: 6.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,225
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.9 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 158
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.64 miles (GREENWAY TRAIL EAST EXTENSION)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **La Mirada High** — 0.6 mi away, 1.37% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Meadow Green Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 11.8% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Granada Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 11.2% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Scott Avenue Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 15.2% (this school: 15.8%)
- **Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate** — 1.0 mi away, 11.5% (this school: 15.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **La Mirada High** — 0.6 mi away, 55% (this school: 50.75%)
- **Meadow Green Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 50.75%)
- **Granada Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 67.95% (this school: 50.75%)
- **Rancho-Starbuck Intermediate** — 1.0 mi away, 59.65% (this school: 50.75%)
- **Eastwood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 51.6% (this school: 50.75%)

### math proficiency
- **John Foster Dulles Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Meadow Green Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Granada Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **La Pluma Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Scott Avenue Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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