# Ben Painter Elementary

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ben-painter-elementary-san-jose

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060231008782`
- **School name**: Ben Painter Elementary
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95133
- **Address**: 500 Rough and Ready Rd.
- **District**: Alum Rock Union Elementary (LEAID `0602310`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 37.37580, -121.84360
- **Phone**: (408)928-8400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 362
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 41.2% proficient — 128 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 21.2% (73 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.4% (10 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**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 45.9%
- **Black/African American**: 52.1%
- **Asian**: 0.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 62.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.9% — 19 students
- **English Learners**: 32.7% — 106 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,024
- **Federal share**: $3,036
- **State + local share**: $20,988
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 324
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,376,750
- **Federal share**: 13.5%
- **State share**: 61.3%
- **Local share**: 25.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,987,625

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $111,414
- **Poverty rate**: 5.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,734
- **Foreign-born residents**: 57.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 130
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.42 miles (1932 SHORTRIDGE AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.386 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Foothill High** — 0.6 mi away, 2.71% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Millard McCollam Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 20.8% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Escuela Popular/Center for Training and Careers Family Lrng** — 0.8 mi away, 7.18% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Independence High** — 0.9 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 21.2%)
- **James Lick High** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 21.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Independence High** — 0.9 mi away, 42.4% (this school: 39.6%)
- **KIPP San Jose Collegiate** — 1.0 mi away, 67.25% (this school: 39.6%)
- **Summerdale Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 45.75% (this school: 39.6%)
- **Piedmont Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 54.5% (this school: 39.6%)
- **Noble Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 70.65% (this school: 39.6%)

### math proficiency
- **KIPP San Jose Collegiate** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Noble Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Piedmont Hills High** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Sierramont Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Muwekma Ohlone Middle** — 3.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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