# Kern County Special Education

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/kern-county-special-education-bakersfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069101207112`
- **School name**: Kern County Special Education
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93301
- **Address**: 1300 17th St. City Centre
- **District**: Kern County Office of Education (LEAID `0691012`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.37460, -119.01675
- **Phone**: (661)636-4788
- **Website**: https://www.kern.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 387
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 6.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 24.6% proficient — 192 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 6)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 59.3% (239 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.8% (82 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (6 students) [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**: 70.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 31.3% — 129 students
- **English Learners**: 24.8% — 102 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,355
- **Federal share**: $2,535
- **State + local share**: $26,820
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 412
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $199,993,711
- **Federal share**: 22.5%
- **State share**: 48.0%
- **Local share**: 29.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $24,338,655

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $17,298
- **Poverty rate**: 45.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $798
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 65.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.2 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 33
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.38 miles (ASSISTANCE LEAGUE BUILDING)

### 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**: 0.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Kern County Juvenile Court** — 0.0 mi away, 6.1% (this school: 59.3%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 1.6% (this school: 59.3%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 0.5 mi away, 1.12% (this school: 59.3%)
- **Rafer Johnson** — 0.6 mi away, 50% (this school: 59.3%)
- **Franklin Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 18.2% (this school: 59.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **Downtown Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 68.45% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 0.5 mi away, 37.95% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Franklin Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 46.5% (this school: 22.3%)
- **William Penn Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 27.4% (this school: 22.3%)
- **Emerson Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 26% (this school: 22.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Downtown Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Valley Oaks Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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