# Buena Vista Elementary

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060639000561`
- **School name**: Buena Vista Elementary
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93311
- **Address**: 6547 Buena Vista Rd.
- **District**: Panama-Buena Vista Union (LEAID `0606390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.29558, -119.12962
- **Phone**: (661)831-0818
- **Website**: https://www.pbvusd.k12.ca.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 713
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 53.2% proficient — 407 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 18.7% (141 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.4% (68 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**: 54.2%
- **Black/African American**: 13.6%
- **Asian**: 6.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 22.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 2.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.7% — 77 students
- **English Learners**: 15.4% — 111 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 33 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 29 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,374
- **Federal share**: $1,747
- **State + local share**: $14,627
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 720
### 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**: $135,000
- **Poverty rate**: 2.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 53.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,908
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.5 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.42 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**: 5.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Independence High** — 1.4 mi away, 0.09% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Stockdale High** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Highgate Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 12.5% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Ronald Reagan Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 9.3% (this school: 18.7%)
- **Douglas J. Miller Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 18.4% (this school: 18.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Earl Warren Junior High** — 1.3 mi away, 70.4% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Stockdale High** — 2.2 mi away, 63.75% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Highgate Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 59.6%)
- **Stockdale Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 66.7% (this school: 59.6%)
- **W. A. Kendrick Elementary** — 5.9 mi away, 70.1% (this school: 59.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Earl Warren Junior High** — 1.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Old River Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Stockdale High** — 2.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Leo B. Hart Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Christa McAuliffe Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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