# Bell Hill Academy

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bell-hill-academy-grass-valley/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bell-hill-academy-grass-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061578013165`
- **School name**: Bell Hill Academy
- **Location**: Grass Valley, CA 95945
- **Address**: 342 South School St.
- **District**: Grass Valley Elementary (LEAID `0615780`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–4
- **Coordinates**: 39.21560, -121.06760
- **Phone**: (530)273-2281
- **Website**: https://www.gvsd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 246
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 58.2% proficient — 78 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 25.8% (65 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.3% (27 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (4 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 2.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 35.5%
- **Black/African American**: 3.0%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 63.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.2% — 19 students
- **English Learners**: 10.0% — 23 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,091
- **Federal share**: $1,843
- **State + local share**: $18,248
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 231
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,708,385
- **Federal share**: 13.5%
- **State share**: 27.7%
- **Local share**: 58.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,794,081

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,300
- **Poverty rate**: 15.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,445
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.3 miles (LAVA CAP MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.15 miles (309 MILL STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NEVADA ID - E. GEORGE, BANNER MOUNTAIN
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.17651 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Grass Valley Charter** — 0.3 mi away, 15.9% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Silver Springs High (Continuation)** — 0.4 mi away, 11.59% (this school: 25.8%)
- **John Muir Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 10.36% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Yuba River Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 20.3% (this school: 25.8%)
- **Union Hill Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 17.8% (this school: 25.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **William & Marian Ghidotti High** — 1.8 mi away, 84.9% (this school: 62.1%)
- **Sierra Academy of Expeditionary Learning** — 4.3 mi away, 65.6% (this school: 62.1%)
- **Williams Ranch Elementary** — 7.6 mi away, 72.15% (this school: 62.1%)
- **Colfax High** — 9.2 mi away, 63.05% (this school: 62.1%)
- **Bear River High** — 11.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 62.1%)

### math proficiency
- **William & Marian Ghidotti High** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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