# DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120150004410`
- **School name**: DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY
- **Location**: RIVIERA BEACH, FL 33404
- **Address**: 1501 AVENUE U
- **District**: PALM BEACH (LEAID `1201500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.77608, -80.08395
- **Phone**: (561)882-7600

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 529
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 58.4% (342 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.3% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.8% (40 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 37.4% (191 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 1.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 92.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.1% — 62 students
- **English Learners**: 5.5% — 28 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 33 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,581
- **Federal share**: $2,606
- **State + local share**: $12,975
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,532,108
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 21.7%
- **Local share**: 63.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,014,132

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $52,625
- **Poverty rate**: 16.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.9%
- **Unemployment**: 13.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,540
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.5 miles (TRANS CIRCUITS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 27
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.31 miles (AVENUE J)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: RIVIERA BEACH UTILITY DISTRICT, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 19
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 7
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.39436 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.26%)
- **JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0.97% (this school: 6.26%)
- **RIVIERA BEACH PREPARATORY & ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 3.87% (this school: 6.26%)
- **LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 3.79% (this school: 6.26%)
- **TEEN PARENT PROGRAM - PK** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.26%)

### ela proficiency
- **SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 92% (this school: 36.5%)
- **JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 39% (this school: 36.5%)
- **LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 39% (this school: 36.5%)
- **WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 37% (this school: 36.5%)
- **INLET GROVE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 59% (this school: 36.5%)

### math proficiency
- **SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 78% (this school: 38%)
- **JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 48% (this school: 38%)
- **LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 49% (this school: 38%)
- **WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 41% (this school: 38%)
- **WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 44% (this school: 38%)

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