Public school / Primary
Bess Maxwell Elementary
Crescent City, California
- NCES ID
- 061077001191
- District
- Del Norte County Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bess Maxwell Elementary is a public primary school in Crescent City, California, run by Del Norte County Unified. It enrols 233 students — the 74350th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
233
Teachers
12.0
Students per teacher
19.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
81.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Del Norte County Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Del Norte High1,006 students
- 2Crescent Elk Middle491 students
- 3Redwood Elementary477 students
- 4Joe Hamilton Elementary306 students
- 5Pine Grove Elementary280 students
- 6Smith River Elementary245 students
- 7Bess Maxwell Elementary233 students
- 8Mary Peacock Elementary230 students
- Enrollment−50.8%
- Teachers−42.9%
- Students per teacher−12.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+20.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory