# Charles H. Castle Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060639009332`
- **School name**: Charles H. Castle Elementary
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93309
- **Address**: 6001 Edgemont Dr.
- **District**: Panama-Buena Vista Union (LEAID `0606390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.32919, -119.06754
- **Phone**: (661)834-5311
- **Website**: https://www.pbvusd.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 832
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.8%

## 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)**: 33.5% proficient — 439 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 27.1% (250 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.9% (228 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (11 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 69.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.8%
- **Asian**: 15.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 10.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 88 students
- **English Learners**: 15.4% — 130 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 34 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,181
- **Federal share**: $1,986
- **State + local share**: $13,195
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 844
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,009,422
- **Federal share**: 18.5%
- **State share**: 71.3%
- **Local share**: 10.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,788,448

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $55,625
- **Poverty rate**: 23.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,373
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.4 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.70 miles (BAKERSFIELD ARC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAKERSFIELD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.9442 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Kern Workforce 2000 Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 27.1%)
- **West High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.67% (this school: 27.1%)
- **Laurelglen Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 21% (this school: 27.1%)
- **Munsey Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 24.1% (this school: 27.1%)
- **Bill L. Williams Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 19.9% (this school: 27.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **O. J. Actis Junior High** — 0.4 mi away, 38.95% (this school: 35.75%)
- **Stine Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 36.9% (this school: 35.75%)
- **Fred L. Thompson Junior High** — 0.9 mi away, 36.25% (this school: 35.75%)
- **West High** — 1.1 mi away, 54.1% (this school: 35.75%)
- **Louise Sandrini Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 43.05% (this school: 35.75%)

### math proficiency
- **West High** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Christa McAuliffe Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Stockdale Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Quailwood Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Evergreen Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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

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