# Bethune K-8

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063432008963`
- **School name**: Bethune K-8
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92114
- **Address**: 6835 Benjamin Holt Rd.
- **District**: San Diego Unified (LEAID `0634320`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Coordinates**: 32.68915, -117.04951
- **Phone**: (619)267-2271
- **Website**: https://www.bethune.sandiegounified.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 520
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.8% proficient — 348 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.4% (94 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.3% (58 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (10 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.4% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 13.8% — 73 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,014
- **Federal share**: $3,437
- **State + local share**: $16,577
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 529
### 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**: $123,368
- **Poverty rate**: 11.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,299
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 45.9 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.67 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**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **San Diego SCPA** — 0.7 mi away, 9% (this school: 17.4%)
- **Morse High** — 0.8 mi away, 3.97% (this school: 17.4%)
- **The O'Farrell Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 8.5% (this school: 17.4%)
- **Ira Harbison** — 1.4 mi away, 16.2% (this school: 17.4%)
- **Valley Vista Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 13.3% (this school: 17.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Perry Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 50.75% (this school: 35.4%)
- **San Diego SCPA** — 0.7 mi away, 58.75% (this school: 35.4%)
- **Bell Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 36.9% (this school: 35.4%)
- **Morse High** — 0.8 mi away, 36.1% (this school: 35.4%)
- **Zamorano Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 45.75% (this school: 35.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Perry Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **San Diego SCPA** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Bell Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Zamorano Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **The O'Farrell Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/bethune-k-8-san-diego/workforce

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