# BEN SHEPPARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ben-sheppard-elementary-school-hialeah

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039002500`
- **School name**: BEN SHEPPARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: HIALEAH, FL 33016
- **Address**: 5700 W 24TH AVE
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.87421, -80.33233
- **Phone**: (305)556-2204

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 927
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 58
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.2%

## 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 12.6% (102 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.4% (135 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 97.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 1.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 117 students
- **English Learners**: 38.5% — 361 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,820
- **Federal share**: $1,973
- **State + local share**: $10,846
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,452,063
- **Federal share**: 19.5%
- **State share**: 23.3%
- **Local share**: 57.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,807,498

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $29,088
- **Poverty rate**: 22.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,507
- **Foreign-born residents**: 81.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (PEPPER STEEL ALLOYS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 80
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.89 miles (MIAMI SPRINGS BOAT RAMP)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HIALEAH, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.0125 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **JOSE MARTI MAST 6-12 ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 92% (this school: 64%)
- **MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 69% (this school: 64%)
- **MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 90% (this school: 64%)
- **MATER ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 71.5% (this school: 64%)
- **HIALEAH GARDENS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 71% (this school: 64%)

### math proficiency
- **JOSE MARTI MAST 6-12 ACADEMY** — 0.1 mi away, 95% (this school: 73%)
- **MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 83% (this school: 73%)
- **MATER PERFORMING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 96% (this school: 73%)
- **MATER ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 73%)
- **HIALEAH GARDENS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 79% (this school: 73%)

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