# Bessie E. Owens Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060363000313`
- **School name**: Bessie E. Owens Elementary
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93307
- **Address**: 815 Potomac Ave.
- **District**: Bakersfield City (LEAID `0603630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.36559, -118.99308
- **Phone**: (661)631-5420
- **Website**: http://owensprimary.bcsd.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 867
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 40.5% proficient — 492 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 29.7% (291 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.3% (173 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (18 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (24 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 81.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 10.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.9% — 62 students
- **English Learners**: 29.2% — 263 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,426
- **Federal share**: $2,789
- **State + local share**: $17,637
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 900
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,118,232
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 77.8%
- **Local share**: 6.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,808,723

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $40,941
- **Poverty rate**: 46.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.6%
- **Unemployment**: 15.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,180
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 39.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.8 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.86 miles (1900 EAST BRUNDAGE LANE)

### 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**: 13.0743 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Abraham Lincoln Jr. High** — 0.4 mi away, 29.4% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 17.6% (this school: 29.7%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 26.5% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Vista Continuation High** — 1.1 mi away, 4.29% (this school: 29.7%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 21.1% (this school: 29.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Williams Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 53.9% (this school: 53.25%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 68.45% (this school: 53.25%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 1.9 mi away, 58% (this school: 53.25%)
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 57.95% (this school: 53.25%)
- **South High** — 3.1 mi away, 59.05% (this school: 53.25%)

### math proficiency
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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