# Silver Beach Elementary School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530042000115`
- **School name**: Silver Beach Elementary School
- **Location**: Bellingham, WA 98226
- **Address**: 4101 Academy St
- **District**: Bellingham School District (LEAID `5300420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 48.76830, -122.41680
- **Phone**: (360)676-6443

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 357
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 23.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 9
  - proficiency_math_decile: 9
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 9
  - growth_ela_decile: 7
  - growth_math_decile: 5
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 6
  - regularattendance_decile: 6
  - sqss_combined_decile: 6
  - _2025_score: 7.2
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.5% (49 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 79.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 11.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 19.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.3% — 44 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Developmental Delay**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,184
- **Federal share**: $605
- **State + local share**: $16,579
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 324
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,862,663
- **Federal share**: 9.9%
- **State share**: 59.5%
- **Local share**: 30.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,367,689

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $106,613
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 50.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,362
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.4 miles (OESER CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.74 miles (MARITIME HERITAGE CENTER FISH HATCHERY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.65172 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Columbia Elementary School** — 3.5 mi away, 5.36% (this school: 12.53%)
- **Wade King Elementary School** — 3.7 mi away, 9.61% (this school: 12.53%)
- **Bellingham Family Partnership Program** — 4.9 mi away, 5.16% (this school: 12.53%)
- **Meridian Special Programs** — 6.9 mi away, 9.38% (this school: 12.53%)
- **Meridian Middle School** — 7.1 mi away, 7.22% (this school: 12.53%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bellingham High School** — 2.7 mi away, 74.8% (this school: 73.2%)
- **Sehome High School** — 4.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 73.2%)

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