# Bernard L. Hughes Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061269009536`
- **School name**: Bernard L. Hughes Elementary
- **Location**: Modesto, CA 95357
- **Address**: 512 North McClure Rd.
- **District**: Empire Union Elementary (LEAID `0612690`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 37.64580, -120.92900
- **Phone**: (209)527-1330
- **Website**: https://bhes.empire.k12.ca.us/o/blhes

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 455
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.5% proficient — 237 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.1% (105 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.0% (98 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)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 60.9%
- **Black/African American**: 8.3%
- **Asian**: 3.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 19.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.5%
- **Two or more races**: 5.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.7% — 41 students
- **English Learners**: 27.2% — 129 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,383
- **Federal share**: $2,744
- **State + local share**: $14,639
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 474
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,551,233
- **Federal share**: 11.2%
- **State share**: 58.5%
- **Local share**: 30.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,097,951

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $110,948
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,272
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.8 miles (MODESTO GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 40
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.80 miles (PROPOSED SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ALTERNATIVE EDUCATI)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.09227 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Peter Johansen High** — 0.6 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Alice N. Stroud Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 19.4% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Lakewood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 8% (this school: 21.1%)
- **El Vista Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 14.6% (this school: 21.1%)
- **Sonoma Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 20% (this school: 21.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Peter Johansen High** — 0.6 mi away, 42.45% (this school: 38.75%)
- **Lakewood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 59% (this school: 38.75%)
- **Norman N. Glick Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 39.8% (this school: 38.75%)
- **Christine Sipherd Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 40.6% (this school: 38.75%)
- **El Vista Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 54.85% (this school: 38.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Sonoma Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Daniel J. Savage Middle** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Orchard Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Mary Ann Sanders Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Thomas Downey High** — 2.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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