# BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120018006981`
- **School name**: BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: HOLLYWOOD, FL 33020
- **Address**: 2620 HOLLYWOOD BLVD
- **District**: BROWARD (LEAID `1200180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 26.01001, -80.15996
- **Phone**: (954)342-4064

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 360
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (9 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 31.6% (113 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 0.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 58.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.2% — 22 students
- **English Learners**: 38.0% — 136 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,790
- **Federal share**: $957
- **State + local share**: $7,832
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,881,634
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 31.2%
- **Local share**: 49.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,878,709

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,287
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.8%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,496
- **Foreign-born residents**: 41.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (PETROLEUM PRODUCTS CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.15 miles (CHAVES LAKE PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HOLLYWOOD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.55094 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL NORTH CAMPUS** — 0.0 mi away, 83% (this school: 69.5%)
- **BEACHSIDE MONTESSORI VILLAGE** — 0.7 mi away, 91.5% (this school: 69.5%)
- **HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCE** — 1.2 mi away, 76% (this school: 69.5%)
- **HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 83% (this school: 69.5%)
- **SHERIDAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE** — 2.8 mi away, 90% (this school: 69.5%)

### math proficiency
- **BEACHSIDE MONTESSORI VILLAGE** — 0.7 mi away, 90% (this school: 82%)
- **HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCE** — 1.2 mi away, 84% (this school: 82%)
- **HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 89% (this school: 82%)
- **IPREP  ACADEMY NORTH** — 2.9 mi away, 91% (this school: 82%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY EAST PREPARATORY** — 3.2 mi away, 84% (this school: 82%)

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