# Alta Vista Alternative High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060141412435`
- **School name**: Alta Vista Alternative High
- **Location**: Santa Barbara, CA 93101
- **Address**: 215 East Ortega St.
- **District**: Santa Barbara Unified (LEAID `0601414`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.42109, -119.69584
- **Phone**: (805)966-0883
- **Website**: https://www.sbunified.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 119
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 9
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 59.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Green
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Green

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 0.0% proficient — 41 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 87.2% (cohort of 86)
- **2021**: 67.0% (cohort of 62)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 62.4% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.5% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 14.2% (19 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 50.9%
- **Black/African American**: 4.7%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 41.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.0% — 12 students
- **English Learners**: 5.2% — 7 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,761
- **Federal share**: $2,918
- **State + local share**: $27,843
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 28
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,765,741
- **Federal share**: 9.2%
- **State share**: 18.5%
- **Local share**: 72.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,401,043

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $51,493
- **Poverty rate**: 20.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,743
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 51.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 35.2 miles (HALACO ENGINEERING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.22 miles (GOLETA OLD TOWN PROJECT AREA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.37353 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Alta Vista** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.48%)
- **Santa Barbara Senior High** — 0.6 mi away, 1.37% (this school: 4.48%)
- **Hope Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.48%)
- **Santa Barbara County Juvenile Court** — 4.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.48%)
- **Trivium Charter School Voyage** — 5.0 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 4.48%)

### ela proficiency
- **Santa Barbara Junior High** — 0.6 mi away, 51.75% (this school: 10%)
- **Santa Barbara Senior High** — 0.6 mi away, 39.35% (this school: 10%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 32.4% (this school: 10%)
- **Adelante Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 62.2% (this school: 10%)
- **Franklin Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 51% (this school: 10%)

### graduation rate
- **Santa Barbara Senior High** — 0.6 mi away, 94.3% (this school: 87.2%)
- **San Marcos Senior High** — 5.3 mi away, 93.5% (this school: 87.2%)
- **Carpinteria Senior High** — 10.2 mi away, 92.2% (this school: 87.2%)
- **Dos Pueblos Senior High** — 10.5 mi away, 95.1% (this school: 87.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Santa Barbara Junior High** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Santa Barbara Senior High** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Adelante Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Harding University Partnership** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **La Cumbre Junior High** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/alta-vista-alternative-high-santa-barbara/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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