Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Bess Maxwell Elementary, Crescent City, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 217
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.0
- Students per teacher
- 19.7
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 19.9. 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
- 1124 El Dorado St., Crescent City, CA 95531
- Phone
- (707)464-0310
- District
- Del Norte County Unified
- County
- Del Norte County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 061077001191
School meals
- Free lunch
- 175
- Reduced-price lunch
- 12
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 18786.2% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 145Students 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
Other elementary schools in Del Norte County Unified
- Redwood Elementary 452 students
- Joe Hamilton Elementary 298 students
- Pine Grove Elementary 265 students
- Smith River Elementary 258 students
- Mary Peacock Elementary 251 students
- 'O Me-nok Learning Center 86 students
- Mountain Elementary 44 students
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.