# Browning Road STEAM Academy

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062423003645`
- **School name**: Browning Road STEAM Academy
- **Location**: McFarland, CA 93250
- **Address**: 410 East Perkins
- **District**: McFarland Unified (LEAID `0624230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 35.68250, -119.22220
- **Phone**: (661)792-2113
- **Website**: http://mcfarlandusd.com/bes

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 453
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 18
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 34.1% proficient — 276 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 9.2% (49 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.3% (101 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.9% (29 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (8 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**: 92.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.8% — 43 students
- **English Learners**: 45.9% — 225 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,136
- **Federal share**: $3,605
- **State + local share**: $15,531
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 490
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,532,599
- **Federal share**: 18.0%
- **State share**: 63.9%
- **Local share**: 18.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,508,258

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $39,464
- **Poverty rate**: 35.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 1.2%
- **Unemployment**: 11.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,124
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 40.1 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 23.08 miles (PROPOSED VALLEY OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MCFARLAND, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 8
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 8
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Kern Avenue Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 6.4% (this school: 9.2%)
- **McFarland High School Early College** — 0.8 mi away, 1.36% (this school: 9.2%)
- **McFarland Junior High** — 1.0 mi away, 8.6% (this school: 9.2%)
- **Horizon Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 4% (this school: 9.2%)
- **Nueva Vista Language Academy** — 5.7 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 9.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Kern Avenue Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 27.55% (this school: 27.05%)
- **McFarland High School Early College** — 0.8 mi away, 37.3% (this school: 27.05%)
- **Horizon Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 44.5% (this school: 27.05%)
- **Pond Elementary** — 5.6 mi away, 28.65% (this school: 27.05%)
- **Nueva Vista Language Academy** — 5.7 mi away, 33.8% (this school: 27.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Harvest Elementary** — 6.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Princeton Street Elementary** — 6.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Wonderful College Prep Academy** — 7.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Morningside** — 7.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Columbine Elementary** — 10.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/browning-road-steam-academy-mcfarland/workforce

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