Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6
Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences, El Centro, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 230
- Teachers (FTE)
- 12.0
- Students per teacher
- 19.2
- Grades
- K to 6
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 19.2. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1525 West Main St., El Centro, CA 92243
- Phone
- (760)353-0140
- County
- Imperial County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- Yes
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 060174412184
School meals
- Free lunch
- 160
- Reduced-price lunch
- 16
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 17676.5% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 120Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Elementary schools elsewhere in El Centro
- McCabe Elementary McCabe Union Elementary
- Harding Elementary El Centro Elementary School District
- De Anza Magnet El Centro Elementary School District
- McKinley Elementary El Centro Elementary School District
- Margaret Hedrick Elementary El Centro Elementary School District
- Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary El Centro Elementary School District
- Sunflower Elementary El Centro Elementary School District
- Lincoln Elementary El Centro Elementary School District
- Desert Garden Elementary El Centro Elementary School District
- Meadows Elementary Meadows Union
- Booker T. Washington Elementary El Centro Elementary School District
- Imperial Valley Home School Academy El Centro Elementary School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.