# Betz Elementary

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/betz-elementary-cheney/llm*

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530123000221`
- **School name**: Betz Elementary
- **Location**: CHENEY, WA 99004
- **Address**: 317 N 7TH
- **District**: Cheney School District (LEAID `5301230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 47.49550, -117.57760
- **Phone**: (509)559-4800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 535
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 5
  - proficiency_math_decile: 7
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 6
  - growth_ela_decile: 6
  - growth_math_decile: 5
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 5.5
  - el_progress_decile: 6
  - regularattendance_decile: 4
  - sqss_combined_decile: 4
  - _2025_score: 5.65
  - overall: Tier 1: Targeted 1-2

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.8% (151 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2023
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 11

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.7%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 74.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 7.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 65.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.2% — 79 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 16 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,976
- **Federal share**: $697
- **State + local share**: $16,280
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 514
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,013,251
- **Federal share**: 11.4%
- **State share**: 65.4%
- **Local share**: 23.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,315,789

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $39,079
- **Poverty rate**: 37.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.4%
- **Unemployment**: 15.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $986
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 34.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.7 miles (FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE 4 WASTE AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.97 miles (RIVER FRONT PROPERTIES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.89555 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Cheney Middle School** — 0.8 mi away, 30.66% (this school: 36.83%)
- **Salnave Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 27.78% (this school: 36.83%)
- **Three Springs High School** — 3.6 mi away, 30.65% (this school: 36.83%)
- **Medical Lake Middle School** — 6.8 mi away, 22.16% (this school: 36.83%)
- **Hallett Elementary School** — 6.9 mi away, 20.8% (this school: 36.83%)

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