# Barbara Benson Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-benson-elementary-tustin/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/barbara-benson-elementary-tustin

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064015000774`
- **School name**: Barbara Benson Elementary
- **Location**: Tustin, CA 92780
- **Address**: 12712 Elizabeth Way
- **District**: Tustin Unified (LEAID `0640150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 33.75106, -117.80473
- **Phone**: (714)730-7531

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 313
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 73.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.7% proficient — 133 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.6% (73 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.5% (45 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 63.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.6% — 70 students
- **English Learners**: 18.2% — 59 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,610
- **Federal share**: $2,106
- **State + local share**: $14,504
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 324
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,790,289
- **Federal share**: 8.1%
- **State share**: 38.0%
- **Local share**: 53.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,571,906

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $116,678
- **Poverty rate**: 2.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.0%
- **Unemployment**: 6.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,493
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.2 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 123
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.18 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF TUSTIN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Guin Foss Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 12.7% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Red Hill Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 4.2% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Tustin Memorial Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 1.9% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Tustin Connect** — 1.1 mi away, 16.1% (this school: 21.6%)
- **Hillview High (Continuation)** — 1.1 mi away, 7.91% (this school: 21.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Guin Foss Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 66.2% (this school: 57.85%)
- **Red Hill Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 70.65% (this school: 57.85%)
- **Tustin Memorial Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 75.4% (this school: 57.85%)
- **Columbus Tustin Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 63.3% (this school: 57.85%)
- **Foothill High** — 1.2 mi away, 66.6% (this school: 57.85%)

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