# BELL EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482364002396`
- **School name**: BELL EL
- **Location**: HOUSTON, TX 77031
- **Address**: 12323 SHAFTSBURY DR
- **District**: HOUSTON ISD (LEAID `4823640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.64376, -95.54922
- **Phone**: (281)983-2800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 539
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 82

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 62.9% proficient — 461 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 31.2% proficient, 9.5% advanced — 461 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 70.9% proficient — 203 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 63.2% proficient — 57 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 68.8% proficient — 80 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 80.3% proficient — 66 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 35.5% proficient, 11.3% advanced — 203 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 24.6% proficient, 10.5% advanced — 57 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 42.5% proficient, 13.8% advanced — 80 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 36.4% proficient, 9.1% advanced — 66 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 65.0% proficient — 203 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 68.4% proficient — 57 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 58.8% proficient — 80 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 69.7% proficient — 66 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 33.5% proficient, 10.3% advanced — 203 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 36.8% proficient, 10.5% advanced — 57 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.0% (135 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.2% (35 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 66.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 27.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.6% — 54 students
- **English Learners**: 58.2% — 328 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,397
- **Federal share**: $1,423
- **State + local share**: $7,975
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 706
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,123,680
- **Federal share**: 23.2%
- **State share**: 8.0%
- **Local share**: 68.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,523,039

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,420
- **Poverty rate**: 13.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.6%
- **Unemployment**: 9.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,876
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.4 miles (CRYSTAL CHEMICAL CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 28
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.89 miles (0 WILLIAMCREST AT GESSNER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF HOUSTON
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.8623 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.7 miles

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