# Bell Middle

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063432005419`
- **School name**: Bell Middle
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92139
- **Address**: 620 Briarwood Rd.
- **District**: San Diego Unified (LEAID `0634320`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.68851, -117.03807
- **Phone**: (619)430-1000
- **Website**: https://www.bell.sandiegounified.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4883207 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Middle_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 700
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.8% proficient — 639 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 38.2% (293 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.6% (177 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.9% (42 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.4% (24 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.0% — 150 students
- **English Learners**: 19.2% — 137 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 62 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,167
- **Federal share**: $3,526
- **State + local share**: $17,641
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 713
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,705,281
- **Federal share**: 14.4%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 60.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,484,916

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $80,436
- **Poverty rate**: 3.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.8%
- **Unemployment**: 9.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,960
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 46.2 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.15 miles (SECOND CHANCE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.9444 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Boone Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 31.8% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Zamorano Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 25.1% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Bethune K-8** — 0.7 mi away, 17.4% (this school: 38.2%)
- **San Diego SCPA** — 0.9 mi away, 9% (this school: 38.2%)
- **Morse High** — 1.1 mi away, 3.97% (this school: 38.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Zamorano Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 45.75% (this school: 36.9%)
- **San Diego SCPA** — 0.9 mi away, 58.75% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Freese Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 41.5% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Perry Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 50.75% (this school: 36.9%)
- **Keiller Leadership Academy** — 1.7 mi away, 56.25% (this school: 36.9%)

### math proficiency
- **The O'Farrell Charter** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Allen (Ella B.) Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Clear View** — 3.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **San Miguel Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Bonita Vista Middle** — 3.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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