# Don Benito Fundamental

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/don-benito-fundamental-pasadena

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062994004665`
- **School name**: Don Benito Fundamental
- **Location**: Pasadena, CA 91107
- **Address**: 3700 Denair St.
- **District**: Pasadena Unified (LEAID `0629940`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 34.17084, -118.07188
- **Phone**: (626)396-5870
- **Website**: http://donbenito.pusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 384
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 48.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.8% proficient — 205 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 22.7% (93 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.1% (38 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.1% — 84 students
- **English Learners**: 10.1% — 40 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,328
- **Federal share**: $3,829
- **State + local share**: $21,499
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 398
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,845,413
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 40.3%
- **Local share**: 45.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,844,313

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $189,491
- **Poverty rate**: 2.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,379
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.27 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PASADENA WATER AND POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Field (Eugene) Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 4.4% (this school: 22.7%)
- **Sierra Madre Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 11.3% (this school: 22.7%)
- **Pasadena High** — 1.3 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 22.7%)
- **Sierra Madre Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 12% (this school: 22.7%)
- **Learning Works** — 2.0 mi away, 6.3% (this school: 22.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sierra Madre Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 71.35% (this school: 56.9%)
- **Pasadena High** — 1.3 mi away, 60.4% (this school: 56.9%)
- **Sierra Madre Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 69.5% (this school: 56.9%)
- **Marshall Fundamental** — 2.4 mi away, 64.25% (this school: 56.9%)
- **Highland Oaks Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 73.85% (this school: 56.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Sierra Madre Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Sierra Madre Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Highland Oaks Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Longfellow (Henry W.) Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **San Marino High** — 3.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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