# Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060174412184`
- **School name**: Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences
- **Location**: El Centro, CA 92243
- **Address**: 1525 West Main St.
- **District**: Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences District (LEAID `0601744`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 32.79092, -115.57118
- **Phone**: (760)353-0140

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 230
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.3% proficient — 127 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 17.6% (48 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.1% (42 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (2 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 2.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 74.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 32 students
- **English Learners**: 37.0% — 93 students

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,454,976
- **Federal share**: 22.0%
- **State share**: 72.1%
- **Local share**: 5.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,270,142

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $62,440
- **Poverty rate**: 19.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,061
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.4 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.18 miles (EL CENTRO DOGWOOD RD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: EL CENTRO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.17989 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wilson Jr. High** — 0.3 mi away, 15.7% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Central Union High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Imperial Valley Home School Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 15.6% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Harding Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 15.4% (this school: 17.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 44.1% (this school: 43.15%)
- **Southwest High** — 1.2 mi away, 66.35% (this school: 43.15%)
- **Imperial Cross Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 56.1% (this school: 43.15%)
- **McCabe Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 59.1% (this school: 43.15%)
- **Ben Hulse Elementary** — 3.8 mi away, 65.95% (this school: 43.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Southwest High** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **T. L. Waggoner Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Imperial Cross Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **McCabe Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Ben Hulse Elementary** — 3.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ballington-academy-for-the-arts-and-sciences-el-centro/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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