# Ernie Pyle Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060444000403`
- **School name**: Ernie Pyle Elementary
- **Location**: Bellflower, CA 90706
- **Address**: 14500 South Woodruff Ave.
- **District**: Bellflower Unified (LEAID `0604440`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 33.90020, -118.11590
- **Phone**: (562)804-6528

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 341
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.9%

## 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)**: 42.2% proficient — 184 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.2% (86 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.2% (40 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 70.0%
- **Black/African American**: 8.7%
- **Asian**: 13.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.9% — 61 students
- **English Learners**: 21.0% — 76 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,514
- **Federal share**: $2,504
- **State + local share**: $18,010
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 362
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,686,222
- **Federal share**: 14.4%
- **State share**: 70.8%
- **Local share**: 14.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,276,042

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $103,086
- **Poverty rate**: 10.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.2%
- **Unemployment**: 14.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,256
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.7 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 161
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.17 miles (OAK STREET PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BELLFLOWER - SOMERSET MWC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-10-01

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Bellflower High** — 0.3 mi away, 19.5% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 19.9% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Corvallis Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 20.4% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 14.8% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Loretta Lampton Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 19.8% (this school: 22.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bellflower High** — 0.3 mi away, 49.25% (this school: 31.1%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 35.15% (this school: 31.1%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 57.35% (this school: 31.1%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 41.8% (this school: 31.1%)
- **Loretta Lampton Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 33.3% (this school: 31.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Bellflower High** — 0.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Loretta Lampton Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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